Do you have questions about your institution’s obligations under the Clery Act?
If so, we hope you will join us for a webinar focusing on medical, nursing and allied health school obligations to disclose information about on-campus crime. We will discuss the essential points for compliance and determination of Clery geography.
The webinar is Wednesday,…
Recent national tragedies have refocused the nation on an important question:
Can or should a physician face civil liability for failing to warn of the dangers posed by a patient who later commits violence?
Husch Blackwell attorneys Greg Minana and Justin Stephens addressed this question under Missouri law in an article published in the May/June issue of Missouri Medicine. In…
Alzheimer patients wandering off. Jewelry stolen from a resident’s room. Arthritic hands unable to maneuver a key in a lock. All of these can be issues at senior living communities. However, these issues may become less common as more and more senior communities are moving toward digital key systems.
According to an article in Seniors…
Are you still trying to understand the changes made in the HIPAA Omnibus Rule?
Do you want an opportunity to ask questions and hear how other providers are handing HIPAA issues?
Do you need a chance to brush up on your HIPAA knowledge and evaluate current strategies?
If so, then you should consider attending one…
Husch Blackwell and Texas-based law firm Brown McCarroll will combine ranks effective July 15. With this merger, our firm will have one of the largest healthcare law practices in the country with over 110 attorneys focused on the healthcare, life sciences and pharmaceutical industries.
The merger will provide even greater depth to our healthcare practice…
Are healthcare providers at your facility texting patient information to each other? This type of communication is becoming more and more common, but such text messages are often in violation of HIPAA. To address this issue, Sprint announced last week that it is now offering two texting products that provide the proper security for PHI…
Harvey Tettlebaum, a Husch Blackwell attorney specializing in healthcare law with an emphasis in post-acute care, contributed an article to the June 2013 issue of the Journal of Health & Life Sciences Law titled “Quality Measurements, Payment, and the Law: Disincentives to Physician-Patient Discussions of End-of-Life Care.” Here is the abstract of the article.
With …
Are human genes patentable?
Late last week, the U.S. Supreme Court held that isolated segments of naturally occurring DNA are not patent eligible, while synthetically created DNA, such as complementary DNA (cDNA), is patent eligible. In the wake of this decision, patent portfolios should be reviewed to determine whether patents having claims to isolated DNA…
We will return to our regularly scheduled Branding 101 posts next week, but this week we wanted to share an alert with you about a way brand owners can protect their rights against infringers in the new online gTLD environment.
The generic top-level domain (gTLD) initiative of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers…
We are excited to announce that Husch Blackwell has been ranked in the Top Ten Firms for 2013 by the American Health Lawyers Association. The firm is ranked 9th on the list, up from 14th place last year. We are proud to be associated with AHLA and the expertise in healthcare law that its members exhibit.
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