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FayFay Rozovsky, the President of the Rozovsky Group, was recently published in Hospitals and Health Networks Weekly in their January 19, 2010 email newsletter. Fay wrote an article entitled "Improving the Use of Advance Directives." Click here to read more (external link).

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fay1The July 21, 2009 edition of the Wall Street Journal’s respected Informed Patient column featured an article entitled, “Seeking a Safer Surgery,” focused on risk exposures in office-based surgery. Fay Rozovsky was quoted by columnist Laura Landro on practical steps for patients to consider when contemplating office-based surgery. Click here to go to the Wall Street Journal article online (note: external link).

e-News

12/2009: The Physician-Patient Relationship in On-Call Cases. An issue that many law students analyze in tort law is the presence or absence of a duty of care born of a relationship between a care provider and patient. When does the care provider-patient relationship begin? What must take place for the relationship fit the requirements of a medical malpractice lawsuit? Read more...

Dialogues

12/2009: Risk Managing Cloud Computing. Cloud computing is getting a lot of attention recently. In the December 2009 issue, we looked into cloud computing - what is it? why is it seen as a potential IT / IS benefit in the march toward electronic recordkeeping? What are the real risks and practical ways to manage them? Read more...

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1/29/10: HRSA Releases Final Rule for the NPDB PDF Print E-mail
Written by Joshua I Rozovsky   
Friday, 29 January 2010 13:01

Yesterday the Health Resources and Services Administration released the Final Rule for reporting on adverse and negative actions to the National Practitioner Data Bank for Adverse Information on Physicians and Other Health Care Practitioners.

The rule can be found online at the Federal Register, Vol. 75, No. 18.

 
1/21/2010: Haiti Emergency Relief PDF Print E-mail
Written by Joshua I Rozovsky   
Thursday, 21 January 2010 12:10

Since last week's Magnitude 7.0 earthquake in Haiti, there has been considerable coverage of the human and infrastructure losses from the disaster - heartbreaking stories of loss and inspiring stories of survival.

We send our thoughts and prayers to the people of Haiti and to the rescuers, humanitarians, and medical personnel doing all they can to help.

Our thoughts also go to those individuals and organizations who will help rebuild Port-Au-Prince and Haiti as a whole long after the news organizations depart.

The following are just a few of the many organizations accepting monetary donations to aid the earthquake victims. We are not affiliated with any of them and do not endorse one over the other.

  1.  Catholic Relief Services      http://crs.org/
  2.  Haitian Ministries for the Diocese of Norwich    (maintained a mission house in the badly damaged area of Pétionville)    http://www.haitianministries.org/
  3. American Red Cross   http://www.redcross.org/en/givehere/
  4. ZAKA - Israeli Rescue and Recovery organization working with the Israeli military rescue personnel in Haiti   http://www.zaka.us/index.asp
  5. Doctors Without Borders (MSF)   http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/  - Long history of work in Haiti and other developing nations.
  6. GHESKIO (an HIV / AIDS Clinic in Port-au-Prince whose facilities were destroyed - currently operating a field hospital nearby with support from US 82nd Airborne, donations via Weill Cornell Medical College Center for Global Health)
  7. Partners in Health    http://www.pih.org/home2.html   PIH has been working in Haiti for more than 20 years.
  8. Unicef - all donations according to donation site go to relief efforts (no administrative overhead)    https://secure.unicefusa.org/


Please also be careful donating - ensure that the websites you visit are encrypted correctly, that your web browser (if donating online) is secure, and that you do not fall for many of the ongoing scams related to earthquake relief (external link to FBI). 

Last Updated on Friday, 22 January 2010 09:05
 
1/6/2010: OIG for HHS Releases Memorandum on Adverse Events in Hospitals PDF Print E-mail
Written by Joshua I Rozovsky   
Sunday, 10 January 2010 01:02

Yesterday (January 5, 2010) the OIG for the US Department of Health and Human Services released a memorandum online entitled "Adverse Events in Hospitals: Public Disclosure of Information about Events." The memorandum report, as described in its cover page, "provides information about policies, practices, and plans for public disclosure of information about adverse events occurring in hospitals and patient privacy protectiol1s for adverse event data." The report is numbered OEI-06-09-00360 and is presented as an Adobe Acrobat (PDF) document.

 
Jan. 2010: New NPDB-HIPDB Newsletter available. PDF Print E-mail
Written by Joshua I Rozovsky   
Friday, 08 January 2010 23:15

Available from the Human Resources and Services Administration of the US Health and Human Services web site, the January 2010 issue of the National Practitioner Data Bank—Healthcare Integrity and Protection Data Bank newsletter contains a number of articles of particular interest. In addition to information on protecting confidential information (including credit card data), the newsletter contains information on "summary" versus "precautionary" suspensions and what needs to be reported to the NPDB.

 
12/7/09: FDA Makes Interim Recommendations Concerning Excess CT Radiation PDF Print E-mail
Written by Joshua I Rozovsky   
Wednesday, 09 December 2009 08:37

In a follow-up to an October initial safety notice, the FDA has issued interim recommendations for imaging facilities and care providers so as to provide excess radiation exposure to patients during CT scan procedures. More information can be found at the FDA: http://www.fda.gov/NewsEvents/Newsroom/PressAnnouncements/ucm193190.htm

 
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