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	<title>HEALTH REFORM WATCH</title>
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	<description>A Web Log of the Seton Hall University School of Law,      Health Law &#38; Policy Program</description>
	<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:46:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Recommended Reading: Russell Korobkin&#8217;s &#8220;Bounded Rationality, Moral Hazard, and the Case for Relative Value Health Insurance&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.healthreformwatch.com/2012/02/09/recommended-reading-russell-korobkins-bounded-rationality-moral-hazard-and-the-case-for-relative-value-health-insurance/</link>
		<comments>http://www.healthreformwatch.com/2012/02/09/recommended-reading-russell-korobkins-bounded-rationality-moral-hazard-and-the-case-for-relative-value-health-insurance/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 04:14:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kate Greenwood</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[ACA]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[comparative effectiveness]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Health Reform]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Private Insurance]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this week at The Incidental Economist, Austin Frakt asked the following question:
&#8220;Is it still the case that US and state laws make it impossible for insurers and hospitals to control the use of health technologies? If so, this is a substantial problem for translation of comparative effectiveness research (CER) into practice. It seems that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HRW Welcomes Amy Catapano, Esq.</title>
		<link>http://www.healthreformwatch.com/2012/02/07/hrw-welcomes-amy-catapano-esq/</link>
		<comments>http://www.healthreformwatch.com/2012/02/07/hrw-welcomes-amy-catapano-esq/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 03:55:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Ricciardelli</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Health Policy Community]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Amy Catapano]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Health Care Reform]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Health Reform]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We are pleased to welcome Amy Catapano, Esq., to HRW. She is a health care attorney who recently completed her Masters of Law (LL.M.) in Health Law at Seton Hall Law. She received her Juris Doctor degree, graduating cum laude, from Seton Hall Law in 2007 and thereafter completed a clerkship in the Superior Court [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Data Breaches: A Growing and Alarming Trend and a Potential Safe Harbor</title>
		<link>http://www.healthreformwatch.com/2012/02/07/data-breaches-a-growing-and-alarming-trend-and-a-potential-safe-harbor/</link>
		<comments>http://www.healthreformwatch.com/2012/02/07/data-breaches-a-growing-and-alarming-trend-and-a-potential-safe-harbor/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 22:37:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy Catapano</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[EMR]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Electronic Medical Records]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Data Breach]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[EHR]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Electronic Data]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Electronic Health Records]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[encryption as safe harbor]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Health Care Reform]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Health Reform]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.healthreformwatch.com/?p=12103</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Since the data breach notification regulations by HHS went into effect in September 2009, 385 incidents affecting 500 or more individuals have been reported to HHS, according to its website. A total of 19 million individuals have been affected by a large data breach since 2009. The regulations require a covered entity that discovers a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>(Slow) Progress Towards Uncovering Sex-Linked Differences in Drug and Device Safety and Efficacy</title>
		<link>http://www.healthreformwatch.com/2012/02/05/slow-progress-towards-uncovering-sex-linked-differences-in-drug-and-device-safety-and-efficacy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.healthreformwatch.com/2012/02/05/slow-progress-towards-uncovering-sex-linked-differences-in-drug-and-device-safety-and-efficacy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 16:07:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kate Greenwood</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Drugs & Medical Devices]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Research]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Women's Health Issues]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Drug and Device]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[FDA]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Health Policy Community]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Women's Health]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.healthreformwatch.com/?p=12121</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In 2000, the General Accounting Office (since re-named the Government Accountability Office) reported that more women than ever were being included in clinical trials funded by the National Institutes of Health.  In fact, the GAO noted, over 50% of the participants in the trials that NIH funded in fiscal year 1997 were women.  At the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Hippocratic Math</title>
		<link>http://www.healthreformwatch.com/2012/02/01/the-hippocratic-math/</link>
		<comments>http://www.healthreformwatch.com/2012/02/01/the-hippocratic-math/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 13:36:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frank Pasquale</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Cost Control]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Quality Improvement]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Gregg Bloche]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Health Policy Community]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Health Reform]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Recommended Reading]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
Here&#8217;s an abstract of my review of Gregg Bloche&#8217;s fascinating book, The Hippocratic Myth:
Not many policymakers or scholars can write with the authority of Gregg Bloche. Bloche is not only a law professor, but a physician, who knows his way around a hospital. Throughout The Hippocratic Myth, Bloche cements his authority in the mind of the reader by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reorganization of UMDNJ to be Implemented this Year</title>
		<link>http://www.healthreformwatch.com/2012/01/31/reorganization-of-umdnj-to-be-implemented-this-year/</link>
		<comments>http://www.healthreformwatch.com/2012/01/31/reorganization-of-umdnj-to-be-implemented-this-year/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 02:02:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Clarissa Gomez</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Health Policy Community]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Health Reform]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[New Jersey]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Health Care Reform]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Research]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[State Initiatives]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[UMDNJ]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[University of Medicine and Dentistry]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.healthreformwatch.com/?p=12086</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[On January 25, 2012, after nearly a decade of deliberations and strategic planning, the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey Advisory Committee issued its Final Report pursuant to a directive from Governor Chris Christie. The Report calls for and explains a proposed reorganization and &#8220;complete overhaul&#8221; of the University of Medicine and Dentistry, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Navigating the New Field of International Health Law, Featuring Gian Luca Burci, Legal Counsel for WHO</title>
		<link>http://www.healthreformwatch.com/2012/01/29/navigating-the-new-field-of-international-health-law-featuring-gian-luca-burci-legal-counsel-for-the-who/</link>
		<comments>http://www.healthreformwatch.com/2012/01/29/navigating-the-new-field-of-international-health-law-featuring-gian-luca-burci-legal-counsel-for-the-who/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 02:29:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Ricciardelli</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Global Health Care]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Health Law]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Public Health]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Global Health]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Health Care Reform]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Health Policy Community]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Health Reform]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[International Law]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[WHO]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.healthreformwatch.com/?p=12076</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This lecture, &#8220;Navigating the New Field of International Health Law,&#8221; will explore the intersection of health and  international law and the emergence of International Health Law as a  practice area. Featuring Gian Luca Burci, Legal Counsel for the World  Health Organization, this program will focus on the growing interactions  between health [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Research, the Avian Flu and Bioterrorism</title>
		<link>http://www.healthreformwatch.com/2012/01/26/research-the-avian-flu-and-bioterrorism/</link>
		<comments>http://www.healthreformwatch.com/2012/01/26/research-the-avian-flu-and-bioterrorism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 21:05:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Regina V. Ram</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Public Health]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Research]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Avian Flu]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Bioterrorism]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Health Care Reform]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Health Reform]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[pandemic]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.healthreformwatch.com/?p=12055</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In their zeal to keep us all alive, it seems fair to say that public health officials love bioterrorism preparedness measures. In fact, the only thing they might love planning for more is pandemics. So last month, when researchers at two different facilities revealed they were able to mutate the virulent H5N1 avian flu strain [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bill Requiring Licensure of One-Room Ambulatory Surgery Centers  In New Jersey Dies in Gov. Christie&#8217;s Pocket</title>
		<link>http://www.healthreformwatch.com/2012/01/24/bill-requiring-licensure-of-one-room-ambulatory-surgery-centers-in-new-jersey-dies-in-gov-christies-pocket/</link>
		<comments>http://www.healthreformwatch.com/2012/01/24/bill-requiring-licensure-of-one-room-ambulatory-surgery-centers-in-new-jersey-dies-in-gov-christies-pocket/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 04:36:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tara Adams Ragone</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Health Reform]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[State Initiatives]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Ambulatory Surgery Centers]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Health Care Reform]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[New Jersey]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[one room]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Quality Improvement]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.healthreformwatch.com/?p=12034</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[
Governor Christie has pocket vetoed a bill that would have required one-room ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) in New Jersey to be licensed by the State Department of Health and Senior Services (DHSS), as ASCs with more than one operating room already are.
More than One Room 
Under current law (e.g., N.J.S.A. 26:2H-1 et seq.; N.J.A.C. 8:43A), [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cuts in Mental Health Funding Continue; Supreme Court to Rule</title>
		<link>http://www.healthreformwatch.com/2012/01/22/cuts-in-mental-health-funding-continue-supreme-court-to-rule/</link>
		<comments>http://www.healthreformwatch.com/2012/01/22/cuts-in-mental-health-funding-continue-supreme-court-to-rule/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 05:07:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zack Buck</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Health Law]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Medicaid]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Mental Health]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[ACA]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Health Reform]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Mental Health Parity]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Mental Illness]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[PPACA]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.healthreformwatch.com/?p=12021</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As America waits for the U.S. Supreme Court to hear oral arguments in, and decide on, the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (PPACA) in March, state cuts in mental health funding continue unabated in many states throughout the country.  As previously mentioned here, the PPACA review undertaken by the [...]]]></description>
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