AHLA's Speaking of Health Law

With a new leader at the helm of the Office for Civil Rights, how might the regulatory climate change as we move into 2022 and what impact could that change have on data privacy and security programs? Dawn Morgenstern, Chief Privacy Officer and Senior Principal Consultant, Clearwater, speaks with Jeff Gibson, Member, Bass Berry & Sims, about government agency developments and the evolving regulatory and enforcement landscapes. They also discuss how to develop compliance strategies that integrate processes, procedures, and technology. Sponsored by Clearwater.

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AHLA's popular Health Law Daily email newsletter is now a daily podcast, exclusively for AHLA Comprehensive members. Get all your health law news from the major media outlets on this podcast! To subscribe and add this private podcast feed to your podcast app, go to americanhealthlaw.org/dailypodcast.

Stay At the Forefront of Health Legal Education

Learn more about AHLA and the educational resources available to the health law community at https://www.americanhealthlaw.org/. 

AHLA's monthly podcast featuring health lawyer and blogger Norm Tabler's informative and entertaining take on recent health law and other legal developments.

Essential Legal Updates, Now in Audio

AHLA's popular Health Law Daily email newsletter is now a daily podcast, exclusively for AHLA Comprehensive members. Get all your health law news from the major media outlets on this podcast! To subscribe and add this private podcast feed to your podcast app, go to americanhealthlaw.org/dailypodcast.

Stay At the Forefront of Health Legal Education

Learn more about AHLA and the educational resources available to the health law community at https://www.americanhealthlaw.org/. 

Bob Chaput, Founder and Executive Chairman, Clearwater, speaks with Iliana Peters, Shareholder, Polsinelli, about the evolution of enterprise cyber risk management and the legal liabilities that health care executives and legal counsel must consider. Bob and Iliana authored an article for the February 2021 issue of Health Law Connections magazine entitled, “The Legal Liabilities of Enterprise Cyber Risk Management.” They discuss the two trends that are highlighted in the article: (1) Emerging Standards of Care for Cybersecurity and Enterprise Cyber Risk Management; and (2) Executive and Director Liability for Enterprise Cyber Risk Management Failures. Sponsored by Clearwater.

Essential Legal Updates, Now in Audio

AHLA's popular Health Law Daily email newsletter is now a daily podcast, exclusively for AHLA Comprehensive members. Get all your health law news from the major media outlets on this podcast! To subscribe and add this private podcast feed to your podcast app, go to americanhealthlaw.org/dailypodcast.

Stay At the Forefront of Health Legal Education

Learn more about AHLA and the educational resources available to the health law community at https://www.americanhealthlaw.org/. 

Jen McDowell, founder, (re)connect consulting, llc, speaks with Danica Sun, Associate Counsel, Cleveland Clinic Florida, and Keeley Burns, Managing Counsel, Cigna, about the problem of burnout in health law professionals. They discuss the worsening rates of burnout among health law professionals and why repairing relationships with coworkers and talking about workplace feelings is crucial for strengthening workplace relationships and reducing rates of burnout. From AHLA’s Women’s Leadership Council.

Essential Legal Updates, Now in Audio

AHLA's popular Health Law Daily email newsletter is now a daily podcast, exclusively for AHLA Comprehensive members. Get all your health law news from the major media outlets on this podcast! To subscribe and add this private podcast feed to your podcast app, go to americanhealthlaw.org/dailypodcast.

Stay At the Forefront of Health Legal Education

Learn more about AHLA and the educational resources available to the health law community at https://www.americanhealthlaw.org/. 

Cannabis law is a relatively new and growing area of the law. Lisa Gora, Shareholder, Wilentz Goldman & Spitzer, speaks with Richard Cheng, Member, Weaver Johnston Nelson, and Alexander Malyshev, Partner, Carter Ledyard & Milburn, about this emerging area of the law and its implications for the health care industry. They discuss the patchwork of different cannabis laws among the states, the overlay between federal and state laws when it comes to prescribing, cultivating, and selling cannabis, and obstacles that businesses face from a banking and investment perspective. Lisa is one of the Editors-in-Chief and Richard and Alexander are authors of AHLA’s new title, Health Care and the Business of Cannabis: Legal Questions and Answers.

Watch the full conversation here.

On November 11, 2021, AHLA will also offer a 90-minute live webinar on "Tax Issues Related to Medicinal Cannabis." For more information, please search for “cannabis” at educate.americanhealthlaw.org/catalog.

Essential Legal Updates, Now in Audio

AHLA's popular Health Law Daily email newsletter is now a daily podcast, exclusively for AHLA Comprehensive members. Get all your health law news from the major media outlets on this podcast! To subscribe and add this private podcast feed to your podcast app, go to americanhealthlaw.org/dailypodcast.

Stay At the Forefront of Health Legal Education

Learn more about AHLA and the educational resources available to the health law community at https://www.americanhealthlaw.org/. 

AHLA's monthly podcast featuring health lawyer and blogger Norm Tabler's informative and entertaining take on recent health law and other legal developments. 

Essential Legal Updates, Now in Audio

AHLA's popular Health Law Daily email newsletter is now a daily podcast, exclusively for AHLA Comprehensive members. Get all your health law news from the major media outlets on this podcast! To subscribe and add this private podcast feed to your podcast app, go to americanhealthlaw.org/dailypodcast.

Stay At the Forefront of Health Legal Education

Learn more about AHLA and the educational resources available to the health law community at https://www.americanhealthlaw.org/. 

In this episode of AHLA's monthly series on fraud and abuse issues, Matthew Wetzel, Partner, Goodwin Procter, speaks to Jennifer Michael, Bass Berry & Sims, and Samantha Flanzer, OIG, about OIG’s September 24 Request for Information (RFI) on how to improve its guidance and “modernize the accessibility and usability of our publicly available resources.” They discuss what is prompting OIG’s modernization drive, what to expect from OIG during the process, and what the RFI is asking commenters to focus on. From AHLA's Fraud and Abuse Practice Group. Sponsored by BRG.

Essential Legal Updates, Now in Audio

AHLA's popular Health Law Daily email newsletter is now a daily podcast, exclusively for AHLA Comprehensive members. Get all your health law news from the major media outlets on this podcast! To subscribe and add this private podcast feed to your podcast app, go to americanhealthlaw.org/dailypodcast.

Stay At the Forefront of Health Legal Education

Learn more about AHLA and the educational resources available to the health law community at https://www.americanhealthlaw.org/. 

How can medical staff leaders address concerns around provider professionalism? Sharon Beckwith, CEO, MDReview, speaks with Don Lefkowits, MD, FACEP, physician at Denver Health and current president of the Colorado Medical Board, and Sara Cameron, CPMSM, CPCS, Director of Medical Staff Services at Hospital Sisters Health System, about the steps that medical staff professionals should take when addressing concerns over provider behavior and creating a culture of accountability. They discuss the importance of having a code of conduct and ensuring that providers understand its terms and how to engage providers about their behaviors in a constructive and collegial way. Sponsored by MDReview. 

Listen to Part 1, where the panelists discuss some of the challenges posed by provider professionalism concerns and how to track those concerns.

Essential Legal Updates, Now in Audio

AHLA's popular Health Law Daily email newsletter is now a daily podcast, exclusively for AHLA Comprehensive members. Get all your health law news from the major media outlets on this podcast! To subscribe and add this private podcast feed to your podcast app, go to americanhealthlaw.org/dailypodcast.

Stay At the Forefront of Health Legal Education

Learn more about AHLA and the educational resources available to the health law community at https://www.americanhealthlaw.org/. 

How can medical staff leaders address concerns around provider professionalism? Sharon Beckwith, CEO, MDReview, speaks with Don Lefkowits, MD, FACEP, physician at Denver Health and current president of the Colorado Medical Board, and Sara Cameron, CPMSM, CPCS, Director of Medical Staff Services at Hospital Sisters Health System, about some of the challenges posed by provider professionalism concerns and strategies that the medical staff office can take to handle these delicate situations. They discuss how to track provider professionalism concerns, the key components of professional conduct policies as well as effective use of such policies, and how to enforce employment protections against retaliation when a complaint is made. Sponsored by MDReview.

Listen to Part 2, where the panelists discuss the steps that medical staff professionals should take when addressing concerns over provider behavior and creating a culture of accountability. 

Essential Legal Updates, Now in Audio

AHLA's popular Health Law Daily email newsletter is now a daily podcast, exclusively for AHLA Comprehensive members. Get all your health law news from the major media outlets on this podcast! To subscribe and add this private podcast feed to your podcast app, go to americanhealthlaw.org/dailypodcast.

Stay At the Forefront of Health Legal Education

Learn more about AHLA and the educational resources available to the health law community at https://www.americanhealthlaw.org/. 

Wes Morris, Managing Principal Consultant, Clearwater, speaks with Andrea Lee Linna, Partner, McGuireWoods, about the key steps that can make the difference between an organization’s effective response to a HIPAA data breach and one that sets it down a troublesome path. With cyberattacks accelerating and the rich data pool flowing across the health care industry squarely in hackers’ sights, having a well-established gameplan for responding to a HIPAA breach is a necessity for any organization that creates, receives, maintains, or transmits electronic protected health information. Sponsored by Clearwater.

Essential Legal Updates, Now in Audio

AHLA's popular Health Law Daily email newsletter is now a daily podcast, exclusively for AHLA Comprehensive members. Get all your health law news from the major media outlets on this podcast! To subscribe and add this private podcast feed to your podcast app, go to americanhealthlaw.org/dailypodcast.

Stay At the Forefront of Health Legal Education

Learn more about AHLA and the educational resources available to the health law community at https://www.americanhealthlaw.org/.