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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>
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		<title>Things You Wanted to Know About the New HIT Standards But Were Too Afraid to Ask</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In a previous post I discussed the interim final rule (IFR) that was recently promulgated by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC).  The previous post discussed two of the four categories of standards in the IFR. This post will look at the final two categories. In order to appreciate the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.healthreformwatch.com/2010/02/08/things-you-wanted-to-know-about-the-new-hit-standards-but-were-too-afraid-to-ask/</link>
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		<title>Reform Rodeo</title>
		<description><![CDATA[1a. Health Reform Post-Brown: Kaiser Health News Staff Writer Jenny Gold discusses the Democrats&#8217; seemingly new strategy of focusing on repealing health insurers&#8217; antitrust exemption.
2. Bending the Curve, Success Story: Maggie Mahar over at Health Beat has a wonderful overview of  Maryland&#8217;s successful approach to reducing health care costs.
3. Comparative Effectiveness: Dr. Nortin Hadler offers [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.healthreformwatch.com/2010/02/07/reform-rodeo-11/</link>
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		<title>Medical Care for Haitians: US Announces Funding</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This past Sunday, the White House resumed military airlift of injured Haitians into the United States.  The halt on incoming Haitian patients had happened just days earlier, springing from the economic and logistic fears of many state officials of Florida, where the majority of patients from Haiti were being sent for care.  After finding a solution to the hospital capacity issue in Florida,  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.healthreformwatch.com/2010/02/04/medical-care-for-haitians-us-announces-funding/</link>
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		<title>Allergan v. FDA: Where Does Disseminating Safety Information End and Promotion Begin?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the Fall of 2009, the drugmaker Allergan made waves when it sued the FDA alleging that the ban on off-label promotion was chilling its &#8220;First Amendment right to share truthful medical information with physicians about how to safely use Botox off-label [to treat muscle spasticity] to achieve a benefit while minimizing risk of serious [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.healthreformwatch.com/2010/02/03/allergan-v-fda-where-does-disseminating-safety-information-end-and-promotion-begin/</link>
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		<title>Excise &#038; Healthcare Reform, Part II, or: &#8220;What Overall Effect Would the Cadillac Plan Tax Have?&#8221;</title>
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Part I of this series provided an overview of the excise on high-cost health insurance plans contained in the Senate&#8217;s healthcare reform bill, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA).  This part summarizes the projected general effects of the excise provision.  The final part of this series will address the problematic and controversial consequences [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.healthreformwatch.com/2010/02/02/excise-healthcare-reform-part-ii-or-what-overall-effect-would-the-cadillac-plan-tax-have/</link>
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		<title>Mental Health Parity and Health Reform</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Interim Final Rules on mental health parity were issued last Friday by the various agencies responsible for the administration of the  Paul Wellstone and Pete Domenici Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008 (MHPAEA).  The rules provide interim permanent answers to some of the interpretive questions raised by the MHPAEA.  I&#8217;ll provide [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.healthreformwatch.com/2010/02/01/mental-health-parity-and-health-reform/</link>
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		<title>Little Beds and Little Help at Jfk Hartwyck at Edison Estates</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We speak here of health care and health care reform, most often in the larger, policy sense. This weekend I had occasion to witness the beast up close. My younger brother had his knee replaced earlier in the week at JFK Medical Center here in Edison, NJ. By all accounts the operation was a success; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.healthreformwatch.com/2010/01/31/little-beds-and-little-help-at-jfk-hartwyck-at-edison-estates/</link>
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		<title>An Overview of the New Federal Standards Governing Health Information Technology (Part 1)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Those hoping for health reform have recently had a bad stretch of luck. I am here to report that movement in the reform process is certain in one area: health information technology (HIT). It may not be the sexiest topic in health care, but as David Blumental, the director of the Office of the National [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.healthreformwatch.com/2010/01/28/an-overview-of-the-new-federal-standards-governing-health-information-technology/</link>
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		<title>Financial Remuneration of Clinical Study Investigators</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In November 2009, the Center for Health &#38; Pharmaceutical Law &#38; Policy, in its White Paper, Conflicts of Interest in Clinical Trial Recruitment &#38; Enrollment: A Call for Increased Oversight, explored payments to investigators &#8212; and other potential motivators &#8212; to conduct research.  A study in this month&#8217;s IRB: Ethics &#38; Human Research explores the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.healthreformwatch.com/2010/01/27/financial-remuneration-of-clinical-study-investigators/</link>
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		<title>Excise &#038; Health Reform, Part I, or: &#8220;What is an Excise &#038; How Would this Tax on Cadillac Plans Work?&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Ed. Note: We are very pleased to introduce James Christiano to the blog. He is a law student here at Seton Hall Law and, after receiving his B.A. in psychology in 2002, worked from 2003 to 2008 as a District Adjudications Officer for the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), an agency within the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.healthreformwatch.com/2010/01/26/excise-health-reform-part-i-or-what-is-an-excise-how-would-this-tax-on-cadillac-plans-work/</link>
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