Health Advantage
‘Any Willing Provider’ Bill Returns, This Time Without Wilson Off to Races
A bill that has occupied lawyers for a full decade might have been a mere blip in the state’s long legislative history had Nick Wilson, the powerful and ultimately disgraced state senator from Pocahontas, not been so eager to get to the horse races on one particular day in February 1995. read more >
by Mark Friedman -
Online Health Records for Patients Will Still Require Oversight
The effort to digitize health care records has been underway for years, but it gained new momentum — and qualified health care providers gained financial incentives — with the 2009 passage by Congress of the Health Information Technology for Economic & Clinical Health Act, known as HITECH. read more >
by Jan Cottingham -