HHS Unveils Final HIPPA Omnibus Rule
In late January, the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) issued four final rules, combined to create an omnibus…
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HHS OIG Solicits Input on Safe Harbor Provisions
The Office of the Inspector General (OIG) for the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recently released a Notice in the…
ACCME Updates December and January
The Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) recently discussed several important announcements in its…
Caronia and How Settlements May Not Be So Good for Public Health
In a detailed article about the Caronia decision, Scott Gottlieb, MD, a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI)…
More Industry Academic Alliances
We recently covered Twenty Industry-Academic Alliances in 2012. In the past, we have also written extensively about other…
University COI Policies and Generic Drugs – The Old Becomes New
A recent study from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania revealed that psychiatrists who were exposed…
Greater Accountability in Physician Education Drives New Approaches and…
According to a recent article from Pharma Exec, “there is a new approach to lifelong learning for healthcare professionals”; an…
Health Information Technology: Meaningful Use AMA Comments and OIG Report
One of the central pieces to the Affordable Care Act (PPACA), along with the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act (ARRA) was the…
Physician Payment Sunshine Act: Many Letters to Encourage Completion of…
As we continue to wait for the final regulations to implement the Physician Payment Sunshine Act, more groups are writing to the…
European CME Standards Evolving but Fragmented
Several recent articles have highlighted ongoing developments of the continuing medical education (CME) environment and industry…