New regulation requires medical practices to protect against identity theft
Editor's note Oct. 30, 2009: The FTC today announced "At the request of Members of Congress, the Federal Trade Commission…
Patricia King, JD
Can Electronic Medical Records Help to Decrease Malpractice Insurance Costs?
Proponents of health information technology (HIT) contend that widespread adoption of electronic medical records (EMR) will both enhance patient safety,…
Comparative Effectiveness Research: Toward Rationalizing Health Care or Rationing Health Care?
Billions of dollars are spent annually on medical research in the United States: on basic science to uncover the causes…
HIPAA EMR security and the stimulus plan
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (the ARRA, commonly known as the stimulus bill) included $19 billion in funding for…
Stimulus package and EMR use by physicians
Editor's note: Health care attorney Pat King outlines and explains provisions of the pending economic stimulus package that deal with electronic health records (EHR/EMR…
Physician Ranking: health care transparency or scam?
Over the last year, the once-esoteric topics of physician ranking and “high performance networks” have been fighting words for physicians,…
Potential and Problems of E-Prescribing
For several years, health care industry experts have urged physicians to adopt electronic prescribing, to improve quality and contain health…
The rules for subsidizing an EMR purchase
Editor's Note: Health care attorney Patricia King discusses the new rules for hospital subsidies of a physician practice's purchase of…