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Call it crowdsourcing, transparency, or whatever else you like, but the Obama transition team has been hard at work opening the door to the policymaking process. Sharp Brains lends a hand this week, with a Q&A-format edition of Grand Rounds. Have a look at some of the collected wisdom of the medblogoshere. David Harlow The Harlow Group LLC Health Care Law and Consulting

... will go to seniors. However, the US health care market is not positioned to meet the needs of this ever expanding group. The consequences of an understaffed and under-trained geriatric health care workforce could mean a sharp increase in the number of medical malpractice lawsuits and medical injury lawsuits in the future. A recent article highlights the shortcomings of the geriatric health care system, noting that doctors who serve senior patients make less than their internist counterparts and ...

On January 29, 2007, Sharp Healthcare, Scripps Health and Internist Laboratory filed a Complaint for Injunctive Relief (Complaint) in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California. The Complaint seeks to enjoin the Secretary of the ... clinical laboratory services competitive bidding demonstration project would be the San Diego-Carlsbad-San Marcos, California metropolitan statistical area. For more information, see Sharp Healthcare et al. v. Leavitt, Case No. 3:08-cv-00170-W-POR.

... who are also potential sources of referrals for my mediation and other ADR services. It follows my reading Geoff Sharp's recent post on whether attending such events creates an ethical dilemma for a mediator when the party's host ... should have "ethical concerns" about attending such parties, if for no other reason than "the appearance of impropriety". As Geoff Sharp suggests, one could dismiss this concern as "ridiculously politically correct", or more accurately perhaps, a classic case of "navel ...

... reform projects in order to explore ways to manage medical liability claims. Below is a press release from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) about the grant funding process. AHRQ Announces Intent to Publish Grant and ... settings. The medical community reports serious problems with the medical liability system. Many physicians have experienced sharp increases in premiums for medical malpractice liability insurance. Many doctors believe that medical liability concerns lead to " ...

... here and abroad and resulting multi-hundred million dollar fines and jail sentences have signaled a sharp increase in criminal antitrust enforcement and resulting civil cases. The effective defense of criminal antitrust matters-and ... with the inappropriate use of copyrights, patents and trademarks; and the failure to meet the requirements of licensing agreements. Healthcare Since the adoption of the Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission's Antitrust Enforcement Policy in Health Care ...

... parties to file briefs, and, if warranted, reopening of the record to obtain evidence relevant to deciding the case. Oakwood Healthcare, Croft Metals, and Golden Crest specifically address the meaning of "assign," "responsibly to direct," and "independent judgment," ... be a manager and a supervisor within the meaning of Section 2(11), and Charles Stollings, Andrew Jackson Sharp, and Bobby Lee Stowers, found to be supervisors. It directed the Regional Director to transfer the proceeding back to the ...

... Research Institute revealed that 52% or more than half of those surveyed were dissatisfied with the cost of health insurance, a sharp increase from last year's results. And may I remind you again, that skyrocketing healthcare costs have nothing to do with medical liability. This is a Republican strawman, as bogus as the weapons of mass destruction we were going to find in Iraq. Criminal insurance companies like ...

... the family of the decedent (via Overlawyered). And finally... Blawg Review #130 was a twofer this week, with one part coming from Geoff Sharp's Mediator Blah Blah from New Zealand and the other from Diane Levin's Online Guide to Mediation in Massachusetts; Grand Rounds is presented by NY Emergency Medicine, often of interest to those following medical-legal issues; The Healthcare Economist has the Health Wonk Review; One angry Grandma takes the law into her own hands and goes after Comcast, ...

... Safety Workgroup (HBSW) (5) in 1999. The work group is a partnership among FDA, the medical bed industry, national healthcare organizations, patient advocacy groups and other federal agencies. This group labored for many years to reconcile the ... more numerous users to address the problem. This has been called solving the problem at the blunt end, rather than at the sharp end where the hazard actually manifests itself. At the blunt end the manufacturer also has more technical expertise and is not ...