Saving Lives and Decreasing Costs: The Economic Case for Health Justice
Making the economic case for health justice, and noting how it is inextricably linked to the moral case, is crucial.
Wendy Netter Epstein
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Read more: We Need to Do More with Hospitals’ Data, But There Are Better Ways We Need to Do More with Hospitals’ Data, But There Are Better Ways
Health systems are hoping to leverage the know-how of tech titans to unlock the potential of their treasure troves of data.
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Read more: Price Transparency: Progress, But Not Yet Celebration Price Transparency: Progress, But Not Yet Celebration
Price transparency has long eluded the health care industry, but change — fueled by rare bipartisan support — is afoot.
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Read more: Pandemic Guidelines, Not Changed Malpractice Rules, Are the Right Response to COVID-19 Pandemic Guidelines, Not Changed Malpractice Rules, Are the Right Response to COVID-19
By Valerie Gutmann Koch, Govind Persad, and Wendy Netter Epstein On March 17, the Washington Post published an op-ed by Dr. Jeremy Faust, titled Make This Simple Change to Free Up Hospital Beds Now. In it, he argues that cities and states should “temporarily relax the legal standard of medical malpractice,” in order to encourage…
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Read more: Now Hiring for Fall 2019: Jaharis Faculty Fellow in Health Law and IP/IT Now Hiring for Fall 2019: Jaharis Faculty Fellow in Health Law and IP/IT
An endowment at the DePaul University College of Law funds a faculty fellowship program.
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Read more: Call for Papers: DePaul Journal of Health Care Law Call for Papers: DePaul Journal of Health Care Law
The DePaul Journal of Health Care Law is a student-run peer-reviewed journal published by the DePaul University College of Law. Founded in 1996, the JHCL publishes articles analyzing the legal complexities of the rapidly evolving health care world on topics of interest to health care practitioners, legal researchers, scholars and health care professionals. The editors welcome submission of…
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Read more: LAST CALL: Faculty Fellow in Health Law and Intellectual Property LAST CALL: Faculty Fellow in Health Law and Intellectual Property
The Jaharis Health Law Institute is accepting applications for a Faculty Fellow in Health Law and Intellectual Property. We will be starting interviews in the coming weeks, so please get all applications in ASAP. Established in 1984 and supported by the Mary and Michael Jaharis Health Law Institute (JHLI), DePaul’s health law program has consistently ranked…
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Read more: The CVS/Aetna Deal: The Promise in Data Integration The CVS/Aetna Deal: The Promise in Data Integration
By Wendy Netter Epstein Earlier this month, CVS announced plans to buy Aetna— one of the nation’s largest health insurers—in a $69 billion deal. Aetna and CVS pitched the deal to the public largely on the promise of controlling costs and improving efficiency in their operations, which they say will inhere to the benefit of…
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Read more: Save The Date! 2/22/18: The Jaharis Symposium on Health Law and Intellectual Property Save The Date! 2/22/18: The Jaharis Symposium on Health Law and Intellectual Property
On February 22, 2018, join DePaul University, located in downtown Chicago, for The Jaharis Symposium on Health Law and Intellectual Property: Technological and Emergency Responses to Pandemic Diseases. Hosted by DePaul University’s Mary and Michael Jaharis Health Law Institute and the Center for Intellectual Property Law and Information Technology (CIPLIT®), this one day conference will focus on “best practices” in response…
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Read more: Block Grants: Sound Theory or Doomed to Fail? Block Grants: Sound Theory or Doomed to Fail?
Block grants are all the rage. Take the latest G.O.P. proposal to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act: the Graham-Cassidy bill. It proposes to replace the current system and instead give grants to the states, essentially taking the funds the federal government now spends under the ACA for premium subsidies and Medicaid expansion and…