The current issue of the American Health Lawyers Association’s Connections magazine features an article I co-authored with fellow AHLA health lawyer, Jody Joiner , on the impact of social media use in health care. The article, Risky Business: Treating Tweeting the Symptoms of Social Media (PDF version) , is featured in the March 2010 issue of AHLA Connections (Vol.14, No

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AHLA Connections: Legal Implications of Health Care Social Media

The ever-vigilant BigCityLib has spotted some revisionism by the Institute of Physics: they have silently updated their “clarification”: the link http://www.iop.org/News/news_40679.html now points to a statement dated 5th March, instead of the original, which was 2nd march. What a bunch of slimy little toads: they pretend to believe in openness, they won’t tell us who wrote their statements, then they silently airbrush out embarassing words afterwards

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IOP: I hate it when they do that

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology of HHS (the Department of Health and Human Services) has issued a proposed rule “RIN 0991-AB59 Proposed Establishment of Certification Programs for Health Information Technology.” The proposed rule is available in PDF at this link and more information is available from ONC itself at this link . I have written a response to the proposed rule that will be sent as a public comment to the Federal eRulemaking Portal ( http://www.regulations.gov/search/Regs/home.html ).

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On ONC’s "Proposed Establishment of Certification Programs for Health Information Technology"

It’s rare when affiliate marketing makes the mainstream news, but Amazon.com is big business, so when Amazon shut down all their affiliates living in Colorado , it became national news. As ZDNet says The states are eyeing Internet retailer taxes as a way to balance budgets and giants like Amazon are in the crosshairs

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Amazon.com shuts down Colorado affiliates

TipHero.com, a growing community where people share money-saving tips and information, is seeking a full-time editor to produce and review content for its website and email newsletters. (From the ad) Requirements: – Ability to research and find compelling content on the web that is focused on helping people save money – Ability to write 5-10 short articles per day – Ability to write an occasional feature-length article – Strong editing and proofreading skills – Comfort interacting with the Tip Hero community and encouraging participation – Familiarity with RSS readers, basic HTML, and graphics editing tools a big plus This is a telecommute position. Compensation is $14 per hour @ 40 hours per week.

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Work-at-Home Editor for Money-Saving Tip Site

According to many bloggers feeding off a London Daily Mail survey, 25% of Britons believe that Winston Churchill did not really exist. According to the report, ‘Likewise, they think historical figures such as Florence Nightingale, Sir Walter Raleigh, Mahatma Gandhi and Cleopatra were also fictional personalities created for literature or films. On the other hand, they believe Sherlock Holmes was a real person.’ But don’t worry these publicly educated geniuses have plenty of time to watch reality TV, listen to Oprah, or dance to Britney.

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Churchill is a Myth – so Say 1 in 4 Brits

If you’re trying to  START a business but can’t find seed capital you may be wondering … “could one of those ‘peer to peer’ lending outfits help?” But you’ve hesitated because, well, you don’t know what to expect… Here’s a great article about someone going through the “peer to peer lending” process for the first time. His goal to pay off credit cards with a fixed interest, fixed term loan to get out of debt.

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Can Peer To Peer Lending Help?

Just writing the names of the dishes we made at the raw vegan “cook-up” today makes me hungry all over again. It was a delicious meal.

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Raw cook-up: sushi, rainbow salad and ice cream

First let me take a moment to introduce myself. My name is Catherine–and the plan is for me to share some information with you about my experience with writing for print

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An Introduction To Writing For Print

Since the launch of my very first Xfactor’s Micro Niche Adsense website 6 months ago, I have learned quite a lot about how to make money with Google Adsense . I realize this learning has to be ongoing and what you figured out right today may not be applicable tomorrow especially since Google is constantly changing it’s algorithms. Well you can say with Google it follows the saying “the only thing constant is change”

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John “Xfactor’s” Micro Niche Adsense-The Adsense Lessons I Learned

The VA and DoD have been working for a number of years on interfacing the VistA EHR system and the military’s EHR, AHLTA (why anyone would want to interface to AHLTA in its present state is of concern to me, but…) [ Note: this is not to denigrate the military, and I am very thankful to all who serve and defend our country and freedoms. HIT problems seem unfortunately universal - ed. ] The interface attempt, likely done by the usual actors in the traditional “business IT” manner has resulted in the predictable: Glitch prompts VA to shut e-health data exchange with Defense NextGov.com By Bob Brewin 03/04/2010 The Veterans Affairs Department closed off access to the Defense Department’s huge electronic health record system on Monday because it found errors in some patients’ medical data clinicians downloaded from the Defense network, according to a departmental patient safety alert, which Nextgov obtained.

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VA / DoD EHR Interface Debacle: Will It Take the Luminosity Of A Dozen Supernovas To Shed Light On The Obvious About Healthcare IT?

At ” Bungled Brachytherapy, Computer Interfaces and Other Mysteries At The Philadelphia Veterans Administration Hospital ” at this link I reported on serious problems involving brachytherapy treatment of prostate cancer at the VA Medical Center in Philadelphia. One of the issues involved computer problems, in the form of failure to network a key computer involved in treatment evaluation. Now at the other end of the state, Pittsburgh, more prostate-related computer problems have occurred: Prostate cancer test interpretation flawed By Walter F

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Computers and Prostate Problems in Pennsylvania, East and West

At the RSA Conference in San Francisco, FBI Director Robert Mueller highlights the importance of a coordinated response to cybercrime, encouraging businesses to work more closely with the government. Mueller assures companies that reporting breaches of