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ERISA/Health
Insurance Portability & Accountability Act/COBRA:
HHS'
Administrative Simplification
Page (HIPAA
privacy rules) | HIPAA Home
Page (HCFA)
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vs. COBRA (IRS Notice 98-12) | Dep't
of Labor's ERISA Statute, Rules, Advisory Opinions page | Amicus
briefs re: preemption of med-mal claims against HMOs and
"complete preemption"
FBI:
home page |
"About the Health Care Fraud Unit" |
Criminal Fraud Cases (summary) |
"Health Care Fraud: National and Local Perspective on a
Growing Trend" |
Statement to Congress on Health Care Fraud (2000)
Genetics: The National Human Genome Research Institute (NIH)
| NIH's information
page on Certificates of Confidentiality | DOE's Human Genome Project Information
page | GeneTests
(from Nat'l Library
of Medicine (NIH) and Maternal
& Child Health Bureau (HRSA)
| U.S. Patent & Trademark Office
(press
releases) |
Notice
of Utility Examination Guidelines for gene patents (Jan. 5, 2001, Fed.
Reg.) | Nature's
Genome
Information Centre (includes
great collection of news,
ethics
articles, useful
links) | See also my Bioethics/Web Resources page
for many more links
Government
Accountability Office:
reports |
Health-related reports from 1997 - present
Health
and Human Resources: homepage
| employee
directory | What's New
| Press Releases and
Fact Sheets
HIPAA Portability Final Rule:
69 Fed. Reg. 78719-99 (Dec. 30, 2004)
HIPAA Privacy
Rules:
CMS'
Administrative Simplification Page - Electronic
Transactions & Code Sets
HHS'
August 9, 2002, Final Rule:
67 Fed. Reg.
53,182 (Aug. 14, 2002)
Gardner, Carton & Douglas analysis (PDF)
HIPAA/Human research issues
See also
Human
Subject Research:
(extensive
nongovernmental materials
here)
Labor &
employment:
National
Labor Relations Board
(Decisions)
(Weekly
Summary) (Rules
& Regulations) (Public
Notices) | Occupational
Safety & Health Administration (OSHA) (11/01
Enforcement Directive re: bloodborne pathogens)
Medical records,
electronic files, etc.:
Medicare/Medicaid
National
Practitioner Data Bank:
National
Practitioner Data Bank:
Guidebook
| Health
Integrity and Protection Data Bank
(Final
rule) (Guidebook)
Patent:
U.S.
Patent & Trademark Office (press
releases) | Notice
of Utility Examination Guidelines for gene patents (Jan. 5, 2001, Fed.
Reg.)
Policy:
Agency for Health Care Research
& Quality | The National Academies
| Institute
of Medicine
Practice
guidelines:
Agency for Healthcare Research
& Quality: Guidelines
| See also
National
Guideline Clearinghouse
Presidential
commissions:
President's Advisory Commission on Consumer
Protection and Quality in the Health Care Industry ( Patients Bill of
Rights, e.g.) | National
Bioethics Advisory Commission
Public
health:
Centers
for Disease Control (Public
Health Image File (CDC))
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CDC's Public Health Law Program | Institute
of Medicine (part of the National Academies)
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Reports of the
U.S. Surgeon General |
Non-governmental resources:
Ed Richards' web page | WWW
Virtual Library: Public Health (U.S.A.)
Statistics: Fedstats | National Center for Health Statistics
(CDC) |
Statistical Abstract of the United States ( Bureau of the Census, Department
of Commerce) | See also United States
Historical Census Data, 1790-1970 | Medicare and
Health Care Chart Book (U.S. House of Representatives, Ways and Means Committee:
February 27, 1997) |
Epidemiology for Journalists (see also
my collection of
statistics links)
Tax:
Telemedicine:
Federal Communications Commission's
telemedicine page | See also Arent Fox' telemedicine web page
| Telemedicine Information Exchange | Bill Manning's telemedicine page
Transplantation:
Organ
Procurement and Transplant Network (OPTN) web site:
joint venture of HRSA and UNOS |
U.S.
DHHS: Health
Resources and Services Administration, Division of Transplantation (Legislative
and Regulatory Affairs) | Secretary's
Advisory Committee on Xenotransplantation
| HHS OIG's reports: "Informed
Consent in Tissue Donation: Expectations and Realities" and "Oversight
of Tissue Banking" |
See also "Transplantation" links on
Bioethics:
Web Resources page
State
Regulatory
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Attorney General
| Texas
Board of Nurse Examiners
| Texas Department of
Health (Health
Facility Licensing Division)
| Texas Department of Human
Services | Texas Department of
Insurance | Texas Health Care
Information Council |
Texas Medical Disclosure
Panel (25
Tex. Admin. Code part 7, § 601.1)
| Texas State
Board of Dental Examiners | Texas
State Board of Medical Examiners
| Texas State Board of
Pharmacy | Texas
Supreme
Court's Parental Notification Rules and Forms
| Links
to Other Texas Health Agencies
SMU L AW
REVIEW,
Survey of Texas Law, "Health Care Law"
(requires WestLaw password):EV.
____ (2005) (forthcoming)
56 SMU L. R EV.
1767 (2003)
55 SMU L. R EV. 1113 (2002)
53 SMU L. REV. 1101 (2000)
52 SMU L. REV. 1259 (1999)
50 SMU L. REV. 1275 (1997) (with Larry A. "Max"
Maxwell)
49 SMU L. REV.
1089 (1996)
Other states:
National
Council of State Legislatures: Health Law Developments
| Oregon Health Plan Policy
and Research | Oregon
Medicaid
agency page
Patient Safety
Bills:
Other Federal
Agencies:
Agency for Healthcare
Research and Quality (AHRQ)'s
Medical Errors &
Patient Safety page -
Medical errors
background paper - Report
to the President on Medical Errors ("Doing What Counts for Patient
Safety: Federal Actions to Reduce Medical Errors and Their Impact") | VA
National Center for Patient Safety -
Patient Safety Reporting
System | NIH:
"Clinical Informatics to Promote Patient Safety" |
American Hospital Association's
Quality and
Patient Safety page
JCAHO:
JCAHO Patient Safety
Page |
JCAHO Sentinel Event Page (policy
and procedures, rev. Jan. 2002)
Other Associations:
ACGME
Report on Residents' Duty Hours (June 11, 2002) |
ACP-ASIM
position paper on IOM report |
National Patient Safety Foundation |
American College of Medical Quality
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Anesthesia Patient
Safety Foundation | American
Society of Health-System Pharmacists
Patient Safety page
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AHA
Quality & Patient Safety Page -
AHA advocacy position paper |
The Business Roundtable's
"Leapfrog Group" for patient safety |
National
Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA)
International:
National Health Service's
National Patient Safety Foundation
| Australian Patient Safety
Foundation
Other:
The Commonwealth Fund: "Room for Improvement: Patients Report on the
Quality of Their Health Care (April 2002)"
Tort Reform
Bioethics
The Web Resources
page for my Bioethics & Law course is
here.
If you are interested in only one subset of issues, click on the
appropriate link:
All-purpose
bioethics resources
| Abortion
(and other reproduction issues)
| Animal and
Veterinary Ethics |
Death and
dying
| Ethics Codes |
Federal
agencies (including National Bioethics Advisory Commission) with a
mandate in this field
| Genetics
| Human
experimentation
| International
resources
| Theology
and bioethics
| On-line Ethics
Resources by Specialty |
Organ
transplantation
| Institutional
links |
Journals & newsletters
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