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	<title>HEALTH REFORM WATCH</title>
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	<description>A Web Log of Seton Hall Law School's Center for Health &#38; Pharmaceutical Law &#38; Policy</description>
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		<title>Healthcare Compliance Certification Program at Seton Hall Law School</title>
		<link>http://www.healthreformwatch.com/2013/06/03/healthcare-compliance-certification-program-at-seton-hall-law-school/</link>
		<comments>http://www.healthreformwatch.com/2013/06/03/healthcare-compliance-certification-program-at-seton-hall-law-school/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Jun 2013 20:16:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Ricciardelli</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health Law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Center for Health and Pharmaceutical Law & Policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Compliance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health Care Reform]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[June 10-13, 2013, Newark, New Jersey NY/NJ CLE credits available Program Overview This four-day educational program, held twice a year, immerses attendees in the statutes, regulations, and other guidance that comprise the body of law known as &#8220;fraud and abuse law,&#8221; as well as other healthcare-related laws and regulations, to help them understand the legal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sterilization Matters</title>
		<link>http://www.healthreformwatch.com/2013/05/31/sterilization-matters/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 May 2013 16:04:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nina Schuman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Quality Improvement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CJD]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cost Control]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Drug & Device]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Health Care]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Health Economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health Law]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Hospital Finances]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Infection]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Medical Device Reuse]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When patients undergo surgical or other medical procedures, they hope to receive optimal care provided by experienced physicians. They are rarely concerned about proper sterilization of surgical instruments and other medical equipment as it is likely assumed that the health care facility has applied this standard precaution. Unfortunately, however, not every medical center is adequately [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Managing Whistleblower Risk and Liability</title>
		<link>http://www.healthreformwatch.com/2013/05/28/managing-whistleblower-risk-and-liability/</link>
		<comments>http://www.healthreformwatch.com/2013/05/28/managing-whistleblower-risk-and-liability/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 May 2013 15:26:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Timothy Glynn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health Law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health Care]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health Care Reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health Reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hospital Finances]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Online Health & Hospital Law]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.healthreformwatch.com/?p=13881</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week, the Jersey Journal reported that a jury recently awarded a former employee of Bayonne Medical Center over $2.1 million in his whistleblower suit against the hospital.  The employee, Ceferino Doculan, alleged that the hospital violated New Jersey’s whistleblower statute, the Conscientious Employee Protection Act (CEPA), by terminating his employment as a technician in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Memorial Day, Remembering our Veterans With Treatment</title>
		<link>http://www.healthreformwatch.com/2013/05/27/memorial-day-remembering-our-veterans-with-treatment/</link>
		<comments>http://www.healthreformwatch.com/2013/05/27/memorial-day-remembering-our-veterans-with-treatment/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 May 2013 12:44:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Ricciardelli</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health Law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health Care]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health Care Reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health Reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[National Newspapers & Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obama Administration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Veterans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Veterans Administration]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It is Memorial Day, and like in past years I will ask that we take a moment here to consider the sacrifices at the heart  of this holiday—we remember our fallen, we memorialize our dead. At present, the Veterans Administration is having great difficulty in treating and compensating our war wounded. Number of Veterans Affected, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Professor John Jacobi In NJ BIZ &amp; NJ Spotlight on New Jersey Health Reform</title>
		<link>http://www.healthreformwatch.com/2013/05/23/professor-john-jacobi-in-nj-biz-nj-spotlight-on-new-jersey-health-reform/</link>
		<comments>http://www.healthreformwatch.com/2013/05/23/professor-john-jacobi-in-nj-biz-nj-spotlight-on-new-jersey-health-reform/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 18:51:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Ricciardelli</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health Law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health Policy Community]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ACA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health Care Reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health Insurance Exchange]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health Reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New Jersey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[State Initiatives]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Professor John Jacobi took part in the Council on State Public Affairs&#8217; “New Jersey State of Health” symposium, covered by NJ BIZ and NJ Spotlight. The symposium brought together the state’s leading health policy experts to discuss and formulate responses to the challenges wrought by the implementation of the ACA. NJ Spotlight reports that: The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PPACA’s Expansion of ERISA: External Review Processes</title>
		<link>http://www.healthreformwatch.com/2013/05/17/ppacas-expansion-of-erisa-external-review-processes/</link>
		<comments>http://www.healthreformwatch.com/2013/05/17/ppacas-expansion-of-erisa-external-review-processes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 16:05:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa Cartine</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health Law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ACA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Benefit Determinations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Decision Appeals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ERISA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Expansion of ERISA under ACA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[External Review]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health Benefit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health Care Reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health Reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PPACA]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.healthreformwatch.com/?p=13865</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) has, in large part,  overhauled the American health care system— and the national dialogue that has resulted from PPACA’s enactment is seemingly infinite.  The focus of this post, however, is one particular topic that has not often been a part of the national dialogue.  It addresses PPACA’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Recommended Reading: New Legal Scholarship from Ryan Abbott and Jennifer Herbst on Pharmacovigilance Topics</title>
		<link>http://www.healthreformwatch.com/2013/05/14/recommended-reading-new-legal-scholarship-from-ryan-abbott-and-jennifer-herbst-on-pharmacovigilance-topics/</link>
		<comments>http://www.healthreformwatch.com/2013/05/14/recommended-reading-new-legal-scholarship-from-ryan-abbott-and-jennifer-herbst-on-pharmacovigilance-topics/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 16:54:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kate Greenwood</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health Law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Recommended Reading]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Drug & Device]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Drug and Device]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health Care Reform]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[pharmacovigilance]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.healthreformwatch.com/?p=13858</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In his article Big Data and Pharmacovigilance: Using Health Information Exchanges to Revolutionize Drug Safety, which is forthcoming in the Iowa Law Review, Ryan Abbott argues that third parties, including academics, insurance companies, and rival drug companies, should be incentivized via an “administrative bounty proceeding” to analyze the large and rich datasets that will be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Online Health Law Graduate Certificate Programs</title>
		<link>http://www.healthreformwatch.com/2013/05/08/online-health-law-graduate-certificate-programs/</link>
		<comments>http://www.healthreformwatch.com/2013/05/08/online-health-law-graduate-certificate-programs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 04:41:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Ricciardelli</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health Law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Center for Health and Pharmaceutical Law & Policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Compliance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Drug & Device]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Drug and Device]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fraud and Abuse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health Care Reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health Economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health Reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Online Pharmaceutical & Medical Device Law & Compliance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pharma]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pharmaceutical industry]]></category>

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		<title>Transplants and the Dilemma of Increased Suicide Risk</title>
		<link>http://www.healthreformwatch.com/2013/04/29/transplants-and-the-dilemma-of-suicide-risk/</link>
		<comments>http://www.healthreformwatch.com/2013/04/29/transplants-and-the-dilemma-of-suicide-risk/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 21:22:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arielle Simkins</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health Law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Criteria]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[disbaility]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health Care Reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health Reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Increased risk of suicide]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mental Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[organ donor]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.healthreformwatch.com/?p=13844</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Bone marrow transplant recipients have been found to commit suicide at more than twice the rate of the general population, according to a recent European study. With a sample of almost 300,000 bone marrow transplant recipients, the rate of suicide was 21 per 100,000 people, as compared with 9 per 100,000 in the general population.[1] [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Actavis and the FTC &#8212; What it Means and Might Mean</title>
		<link>http://www.healthreformwatch.com/2013/04/25/actavis-and-the-ftc-what-it-means-and-might-mean/</link>
		<comments>http://www.healthreformwatch.com/2013/04/25/actavis-and-the-ftc-what-it-means-and-might-mean/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2013 20:48:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joyce McCauley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health Law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Actavis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[generic drugs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hatch Waxman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health Care Reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health Reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Patent]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reverse Settlements]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.healthreformwatch.com/?p=13833</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[On March 25, 2013, oral arguments were given before the Supreme Court for FTC v. Actavis, in what the government is calling a “pay to delay” case.  This potentially very important case could have a deep impact on the way brand-name and generic drug companies settle patent disputes&#8211; and on the cost of drugs to [...]]]></description>
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