Legal News
Mass SJC reaffirms general rule that Massachusetts constitution requires a warrant for tracking a person's location using cell site location information (CSLI)....
Medicare finds that house calls by physicians may keep people out of the hospital....
Problems in gathering or interpreting information related to history taking and physical examination cited as cause of medical error....
Two recent legal cases involving Uber could determine efficacy of its business model....
Employers that already offered paid sick time to employees will be exempted from some provisions of the new voter-approved sick time law that takes effect July 1, 2015. The sick time law requires employers with 11 employees or more to accrue 40 hours of sick time a year, which can be used for themselves or illness of immediate family members. ...
Obscure Federal Law could limit the amount that victims of the recent Amtrak derailment in Philadelphia are allowed to recover. ...
California Medical Association's decision to drop its opposition to physician-assisted suicide not approved by all palliative care physicians. ...
Study of Ponemon Institute, reveals that data breaches within the healthcare industry continue to grow and that they are more expensive to remedy than in any other industry. Many breaches arise from employee negligence and lost or stolen electronic storage devices; however, an emerging trend is that criminals are increasingly targeting and exploiting healthcare data. ...
Report addresses some of the more serious flaws that have been created by the broad adoption of Electronic Medical Records and provides 10 recommendations for how to address them. ...
