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Comments and Thoughts on Health Care Legal Issues, HIPAA Privacy & Security, Technology and Other Legal Odds and Ends that Impact West Virginia.
By Bob Coffield

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Last Entry: April 27, 2020 at 10:14:36

Engage With Grace

Posted on November 30, 2008
Last month I had the opportunity to watch Alexandra Drane announce Engage With Grace: The One Slide Project at the Health 2.0 Conference in San Francisco. The idea behind the project is to get people to share just ONE slide that helps them and their loved ones talk about having a purposeful end-of-life experience...

Engage With Grace

Posted on November 26, 2008
Last month I had the opportunity to watch Alexandra Drane announce the Engage With Grace: The One Slide Project at the Health 2.0 Conference in San Francisco. The idea behind the project is to get people to share just ONE slide that helps them and their loved ones talk about having a purposeful end-of-life experience...

Blawg Review # 186: Blawgers Are All-A-Twitter

Posted on November 17, 2008
Res Ipsa Blog brings you this week's edition of Blawg Review -- Blawg Review #186. This edition begins with a summary of the raging Twitter Wars and includes a link to a post I did last week discussing some of the legal implications of live tweeting in health care...

Medicare PHR Pilot Project

Posted on November 14, 2008
HealthcareIT News reports on the announcement of a Medicare personal health record (PHR) pilot project that will be made available to Medicare beneficiaries in Arizona and Utah. The four PHR companies selected out of almost 40 who applied to participate in the pilot are: Google Health, HealthTrio, NoMoreClipboard...

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Medicare PHR Pilot Project

Posted on November 13, 2008
HealthcareIT News reports on the announcement of a Medicare personal health record (PHR) pilot project that will be made available to Medicare beneficiaries in Arizona and Utah.The four PHR companies selected out of almost 40 who applied to participate in the pilot are: Google Health, HealthTrio, NoMoreClipboard...

The Implications for Live Tweeting Surgery

Posted on November 13, 2008
Yesterday Robert Hendrick, health care disruptor (I mean that in a positive way) and co-founder of change:healthcare, live tweeted his laser ablation surgery at the Surgical Clinic in Nashville. He also tweeted the first installment of his surgery to remove his varicose veins -- Live from the Operating Room...

Why Is Healthcare So Expensive?

Posted on November 12, 2008
A simplified view of Why is Healthcare So Expensive? from Stay Smart Stay Healthy. Stay Smart Stay Healthy is a Humana new-media venture designed to deliver guidance, and to support awareness and understanding of the healthcare industry.Our goal is simple: to educate consumers on the healthcare system by removing the usual complexities and replacing them with an informative and engaging series of videos...

Predicting Flu Season With Google Flu Trends

Posted on November 11, 2008
Google Flu Trends uses search terms as an indicator of flu activity by state.According to the Google.org Flu Trends the aggregated search data can estimate flu activity in a state up to two weeks faster than traditional systems. The chart comparison with CDC data is impressive at showing the consistency between tracking search terms vs...

The Health Cloud

Posted on November 11, 2008
Tim Sturgill, MD JD at symtym provides an explanation and insight into the potential shift from silo'ed EHRs controlled by multiple providers to a Health Cloud centralized around a single PHR.The result of such a shift lessens the need for complex health information exchanges to process and communicate information among a variety of health information silos, matching patient records and trying to match multiple sources of health information that may or may not be identical...

Purkinje: Another SaaS EHR

Posted on November 11, 2008
Justen Deal in his post, Purkinje: stealth fighter, introduced me to another SasS focused Electronic Health Record (EHR) and practice management service provider called Purkinje. Interesting read on the company and its history.The principle owner of Purkinje is John Doerr, a partner in Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield and Byers, who provides venture capital funding for some of the largest technology companies in the world...

World War II Honoree: LeMoyne Coffield

Posted on November 11, 2008
On this Veterans Day I give thanks to all military veterans who have served their county. Please take time today at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month to thank a family member, friend or colleague who served their county.Thanks to my sister Becky who submitted information to the National WWII Memorial to honor my dad, LeMoyne Coffield, and his brother and my uncle, Terrell Coffield...

WV Lawyer Disciplinary Board Seeks Comments on Metadata and Wholly-Owned Subsidary Law Firms

Posted on November 10, 2008
The Lawyer Disciplinary Board of the West Virginia State Bar is seeking public comment by February 27,2009, on two draft Legal Ethics Opinions (LEO). The two LEO's were reviewed by the Board at the October 24, 2008 meeting. Draft L.E.O. 2009-01 What Is Metadata and Why Should Lawyers Be Cautious? The definition of metadata used in the draft LEO is broad to include all "data behind the data" including the "author's identity, the number of revisions made and comments and redlining...

Potential Data Breach and Extortion at Express Scripts

Posted on November 07, 2008
The WSJ Health Blogs reports about a potential data breach at Express Scripts, one of the largest pharmacy benefit management companies in North America. More from Express Scripts on the Facts, FAQs and Other Resources.The potential data breach came to Express Scripts attention after having received an anonymous letter attempting to extort money from the company by threatening the expose millions of patient records...

November 5, 2008 - Today Is A New Day!

Posted on November 05, 2008
Today is a new day. Andre Blackman shared the image below (courtesy of Patrick Moberg) with me this via Twitter. The image speaks volumes about the significance of yesterday. Congratulations to President Elect Barack Obama.Although West Virginia stayed in the red yesterday there was great support by West Virginians although not always reported that way by the national media...

WVU College of Law: Entrepreneurship Law Clinic

Posted on November 03, 2008
Today the West Virginia State Bar announced a new project at the West Virginia University College of Law to provide legal assistance to technology start-ups, existing small business and nonprofits.The Entrepreneurship Law Clinic will be directed by Professor Michael V...

WVU College of Law: Entrepreneurship Law Clinic

What Do WV Patients See As Their #1 Health Care Concern

Posted on October 29, 2008
Today I asked a health care policy related question to my West Virginia tweeters and received great responses. I appreciate the responses from my twitter followers.The responses were so valuable that I thought I would share them with my readers. If others who are reading have additional responses please add them to the comments...

What Do WV Patients See As Their #1 Health Care Concern

Blawg Review #182: Test Your Blawg Exam Knowledge

Posted on October 20, 2008
Take the Blawg Bar Exam practice test over at Blawg Review #182 creatively written by David Gulbransen at preaching to the preverted. Brilliantly creative edition. Don't miss testing your knowledge of Blawg Review.

Blawg Review #182: Test Your Blawg Exam Knowledge

The Rise of the Personal Health Record

Posted on October 18, 2008
The October edition of the Health Lawyers News, a publication of the American Health Lawyers Association (AHLA), contains an article I co-authored with Jud DeLoss, a principal in the law firm of Gray Plant Mooty, who blogs at Minnesota Health IT. On the eve of the Health 2...

Health 2.0 Conference

Posted on October 17, 2008
Next week I'm headed to San Fransisco to attend the Health 2.0: User Generated Healthcare Conference.Looking forward to attending, seeing old and meeting new colleagues interested in the world of health 2.0. I will be involved in the Health 2.0 Accelerator meet and greet on Tuesday (Oct...

The Rise of the Personal Health Record

Posted on October 17, 2008
The October edition of the Health Lawyers News, a publication of the American Health Lawyers Association (AHLA), contains an article I co-authored with Jud DeLoss, a principal in the law firm of Gray Plant Mooty, who blogs at Minnesota Health IT. On the eve of the Health 2...

Health 2.0 Conference

Grand Rounds: Notes of an Anesthesioboist

Posted on October 15, 2008
The October 13, 2008 edition of Grand Rounds is now up at Notes of an Anesthesioboist. Great reading for anyone interested in the latest from the health and medical blogospere.Next week's Grand Rounds will be hosted by Christian Sinclair, M.D. at Pallimed...

Grand Rounds: Notes of an Anesthesioboist

Health Care Cost Rising In 2009

Posted on October 14, 2008
Sandra Block of USA Today Money reports that the average amount employees will pay for health care is expected to increase 8.9% in 2009. Her column also provides good advice on how to try to control your health care expenses.According to the Hewitt Associates report the average amount employees will pay for health care is expected to increase 8...

Health Care Cost Rising In 2009

PROTEX: Cardiac Innovation From West Virginia

Posted on October 13, 2008
Today's Charleston Gazette features an article on a Charleston based medical technology company, Nexeon MedSystems.Mark Bates, M.D., CEO and interventional cardiologist at CAMC has developed a "pro-healing" stent that is lined with protein. The device called PROTEX system may also eliminate the need for heart patients to take blood thinning medications for a year or more after the procedure...

PROTEX: Cardiac Innovation From West Virginia

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