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.