By John Tingle Good communication is an essential prerequisite for good and safe patient care. To effectively communicate is an everyday life skill and it’s one of the most basic that we all must master in some way. From a patient safety context, poor health carer communication practices are a worldwide problem which continues to…
By Sara Gerke The EU’s General Data Protection Regulation, which came into force two years ago but became directly applicable in all EU Member States only last week, aims to establish an equal level of protection for the rights and freedoms of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data in all EU Member States. Each of us has been inundated with…
Ordeals in Health Care: Ethics and Efficient Delivery May 10-11, 2018 1:00 PM Wasserstein Hall, Milstein East (2036) Harvard Law School, 1585 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA Economic ordeals are interventions that deliberately make access to products or services more difficult in an effort to improve resource allocation. In this vein, making patients wait in long lines…
Health in the Headlines: Reporting on Health Policy in the Trump Era April 4, 2018 12:00 PM Wasserstein Hall, Milstein East (2036) Harvard Law School, 1585 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA Join the Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation for a panel discusison with leading health care journalists about the rapidly shifting health policy landscape…
Ordeals in Health Care: Ethics and Efficient Delivery May 10-11, 2018 1:00 PM Wasserstein Hall, Milstein East (2036) Harvard Law School, 1585 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA Economic ordeals are interventions that deliberately make access to products or services more difficult in an effort to improve resource allocation. In this vein, making patients wait in long lines…
Health in the Headlines: Reporting on Health Policy in the Trump Era April 4, 2018 12:00 PM Wasserstein Hall, Milstein East (2036) Harvard Law School, 1585 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA Join the Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation for a panel discusison with leading health care journalists about the rapidly shifting health policy landscape…
Ordeals in Health Care: Ethics and Efficient Delivery May 10-11, 2018 1:00 PM Wasserstein Hall, Milstein East (2036) Harvard Law School, 1585 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA Economic ordeals are interventions that deliberately make access to products or services more difficult in an effort to improve resource allocation. In this vein, making patients wait in long lines…
By Francis X. Shen This new post by Francis X. Shen appears on the Health Affairs Blog as part of a series stemming from the Sixth Annual Health Law Year in P/Review event held at Harvard Law School on Tuesday, December 12, 2017. Another year, another failed Alzheimer’s drug trial. In what is becoming routine news, in 2017, another Alzheimer’s…
Cross-posted from the Psychology Today blog, where it originally appeared on January 15, 2018. By Gali Katznelson and J. Wesley Boyd Let’s call it for what it is: Placing prisoners in solitary confinement is tantamount to torture and it needs to stop. The practice of placing incarcerated individuals in solitary confinement dates back to the 1820s in…
By John Tingle The Department of Health and the government in England have published a draft Bill for discussion which will create a Health Service Safety Investigations Body (HSSIB) with powers enshrined in law. The HSSIB replaces the current Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch (HSIB) which operates under the umbrella of NHS Improvement and came into…
