Although the Federal Health Privacy Rule has evened out some of the inconsistencies between states' health privacy laws, gaps in protection still remain. Furthermore, the Federal Rule contains some lax standards for the disclosure of health information. State laws can play a vital role in filling these gaps and strengthening the protections afforded health information. By enacting legislation t...

O ur complex legislative process affects all healthcare organizations. "After the rubric of patient care, nothing defines us more than legislation," says James Peters of Lifespan, an integrated healthcare deliver)' network based in Providence, RI. He adds, "Laws determine our revenues, set our standards, specify our working conditions, and, in excruciating detail, tell us how to behave. Healthc...

Using the scientific method, main objective of study was to identify key legal norms and aspects anti-corruption policy in order form professional competence students higher education institutions. One most pressing issues is corruption public authorities administration, which a greater or lesser extent affects almost entire system administration. A small number criminal cases bribery indicates...

One of the age-old questions that pervades every area of antitrust law is how to craft the appropriate remedy once conduct has been found to contravene antitrust laws. In general, the appropriate approach to remedies has historically been paid less attention than how to define or identify the problematic conduct itself. However, the central role that remedies have played in recent high profile ...

Any assessment of the impact of required request legislation on organ and tissue procurement must begin by defining required request laws. Of the forty-one states that have passed such laws during the past three years, approximately, half have enacted strong required request policies. These states have mandated that hospital administrators be responsible for insuring that next-of-kin or legal g...

OBJECTIVES To identify and describe the responsibilities attributed to health administrations in preventing and addressing violence against women in the international legislation on this issue. METHODS We carried out a content analysis of the laws on violence against women collected in the following legal databases: the Annual Review of Law of Harvard University, the United Nations' Secretary...

As more and more children enroll in managed care, states have responded to concerns expressed by their constituents by passing legislation and developing credentialing requirements to assist families with children in receiving appropriate care from managed care plans. Although most of the legislation and credentialing requirements apply to the population generally, a few provisions apply specif...

In 1991 the U.S. Department of Justice sued nine colleges and universities, alleging that they had restrained competition by making collective financial aid determinations for students accepted to more than one of these schools. Against the backdrop of this litigation, Congress enacted a temporary exemption from antitrust laws for higher education institutions in 1992. The exemption allows limi...