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Con Men’s Stock Tips–A Quick Way to Spot Them

Live — Sun, 11 May 2008 01:29:17 +0000

Pump and Dump stock scams are still around. Here’s how to spot the stock tips that emerge from these, and how to protect yourself:Worthless stock. Tight float. Thinly traded. These are the basic pre Con Men’s Stock Tips–A Quick Way to Spot Them

Cherokee Nation | Culture | Literature

Live — Fri, 09 May 2008 06:26:26 +0000

Guitar Hero (Rock Band) Health Care. The current (next) generation expects to be on the stage performing and not just sitting passively in the audience.

Check out Why Consumer - Directed Medicine, Health 2.0 Will Flourish by Jen McCabe Gorman at Health Management RX.

What the coming generation will expect from providers - read Jen’s questions and formulate your answer. The task we all have in front of us is how to harness these mentoring powers to focus on preventative care, disease management and wellness.

She ends with:

Work on mentoring the ‘me’ generations - the next wave of healthcare delivery will depend on carefully mentoring ‘me’ thinkers to manage personal responsibility and maintain individual health. Wellness maintenance programs are just one part of the solution . . .

. . . Give us a solo - we’ve been taught for most of our lives to tell people what we want. You’ve been taught for most of your lives to tell people what we need to be well. Your answers about how to work with us in the new system are waiting.

Guitar Hero Health Care

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Happy Holidays!

Live — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 06:27:50 +0000

The West Virginia Health Care Authority issued and approved on November 14, 2007, proposed amendments to the Cardiac Catheterization Standards.

The Notice of Public Comment Period indicates that comments must be submitted to the Authority by December 14, 2007. WVHCA Issues Proposed Amendments to Cardiac CatheterizationStandards

Happy Holidays to all my regular readers! Wishing you, your family and friends the best over the holidays.

A Coffield family tradition is painting Christmas cookies each year. It all started with an incredible women and family neighbor, Mrs. Martin, who lived into her 100s. Mrs. Martin collected cookie cutters (and I mean collected). Most draws in her kitchen were full of cookie cutters from around the world. Each year she would invite all the neighbor kids into her house to paint cookies with brushes and decorate them with what now seems like hundreds of toppings. A wonderful childhood experience. Watching it now with my own children and others who happen to stumble into the event is the way it brings out the creativity of people. Below are a few photos of this years artwork.

Happy Holidays!

Contemporary Literature Colloquium

Live — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 20:25:45 +0000

The New Yorker’s Jeffrey Toobin has a new article on the future of Guantanamo. It features a visit to Guantanamo by Toobin, but also summarizes data developed by Ben Wittes on the characteristics of the detainees - any way to tell who is a continuing threat and who is not? - as part of his forthcoming book. It also has a very interesting discussion on the idea of a national security court, and is nice enough to mention a conference that Steve Vladeck, Dan Marcus, Ben Wittes and I put on at Washington College of Law, American University, this past February 1, on the idea of a national security court. Toobin attended that conference, which had an all star cast.

The article has some interesting commentary from Jack Goldsmith and others on the possibility that the Bush administration will go back to Congress with some kind of proposal for a civilian national security court, in time for the November election. One striking feature of the current presidential campaigns, of course, is that although everyone favors closing Guantanamo, no one wants to get very specific about what happens next. So far as I can tell, McCain favors closing Guantanamo but continuing the military commission trials under current law. Obama seems to favor closing Guantanamo and turning the detainees over for trial in regular federal court. Clinton seems to favor closing Guantanamo and turning the detainees over to some kind of regular federal court trial but with perhaps some national security modifications. I have my intrepid research assistants tracking down the candidates’ statements, and perhaps will write up something for the Weekly Standard, but what seems currently to be out there is noteworthy for what it does not want to say.

Jack G’s point, says Toobin, is that the Bush administration may decide to put everyone - the candidates, the Congress, everyone - on the spot in time for the election. That is fine with me; I have always opposed the Bush administration’s assertions of executive power in this area, with the consequence of letting everyone else off the hook of accountability, and have always favored forcing everyone to raise their hands and vote on exactly and plainly US policy in so important a matter ought to be. Toobin implies that the Bush administration forcing that to happen with the Military Commissions Act at the moment of the fall midterm elections was a sort of cheap electoral advantage - no doubt it was entirely calculated. But it also seems to me quite right; an election and an election campaign seems to me exactly the right moment when candidates and officeholders should be forced to stand up and be counted, whatever their views. What better moment for accountability to the voters than in an . election?

Jeffrey Toobin’s New Yorker article on the future of Guantanamo

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Free Will Astrology: March 25 through April 1 (The Village Voice)

Live — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 17:26:39 +0000

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It’s a mad, mad, mad, mad continent (Austin American-Statesman)‘Latin America,” the Chilean author Roberto Bolao once wrote, “is the insane asylum of Europe. Maybe, originally, it was thought that Latin America would be Europe’s hospital, or Europe’s grain bin. But now it’s the insane asylum. A savage, impoverished, violent insane asylum, where, despite its chaos and corruption, if you open your eyes wide, you can see the shadow of the Louvre.” Bolao, .

Need to create a team site to centralize all types of data and information (think wiki)? Check out Google Sites a part of Google Apps. Here is Google’s short summary of what it does:

Google Sites makes creating a team web site as easy as editing a document. You can quickly gather a variety of information in one place including videos, calendars, presentations, attachments, and gadgets and easily share it for viewing or editing with a small group, your entire organization, or the world.

I yet to try out the features — but plan to test it for a couple of projects. I’m interested in thinking (and hearing from others) about how law firms and lawyers can use this technology service.

A review of Google Sites with more in depth discussion of the features. Business Week, VentureBeat and others cover the release of Google Sites. Google Sites: Collaboration from Google

Limits to mysticism - a sceptic’s view

Live — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 02:26:54 +0000

Recently, there have been a number of oil spills that have attracted media attention. In San Francisco Bay, the Cosco Butan hit the Bay Bridge and spilled a quantity of oil. In South Korea, a barge hi Oil Tankers

Fellow health law blogger, David Harlow, hangs with the Health 2.0 crowd at the Northeast Corridor Health 2.0 shindig in Cambridge. David provides his thoughts on where Health 2.0 might be headed. Looking forward to attending a future NE Health 2.0 event.

Mark Modzelewski, organizer of the event and author of Hub 2.0 - Boston Herald Blogs, served as moderator for the panel discussion and provides some additional commentary. HealthBlawg Cover Northeast Health 2.0 Event

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AP: English Literature

Live — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 22:25:24 +0000

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Tomorrow I’m off to attend the American Health Lawyers Association’s Physicians and Hospitals Law Institute in Orlando tomorrow. Looking forward to the Florida warmth as the temperature here in West Virginia dips into the single digits tonight.

If your interested in the law of health care the AHLA is the group to join. I highly recommend any of their programs. Good venues, great speakers, good networking and all around first class.

Later in the week my family will be joining me and we plan on enjoying Walt Disney World for a few days. Both my wife and I haven’t visited since we were young kids in the 1970s and first visit for our two kids. Everyone is excited.

If any regular readers are attending the AHLA Conference and want to get together send me an email or post a comment. AHLA Physicians and Hospital Law Institute

My health colleagues over at change:health (Christopher and Robert) and Organized Wisdom (Steve and Unity) along with Within3, the founding members, have worked together to release a new open standard dCard (doctor card) to establish basic e-standards for the collecting, storing and sharing of physician information. The dCard is also designed as a central location for the physician to maintain their core data and information.

The dCard concept is being initially supported by a group of nine health care technology companies. As the change:health press release indicates, joining them are eight other companies working together to develop the dCard:

Within 3 (Online professional network for health science professionals and organizations)
OrganizedWisdom Health (First human-powered, physician-reviewed search service for health information, products and services on the web)
VerusMed (Providers of clinical briefs for 150,000+ physicians and healthcare professionals)
Peerclip (Online tool that enables physicians to organize, share, discuss and discover relevant medical information)
Ozmosis (Online platform that unites physicians and healthcare organizations in a collaborative environment to improve patient care)
Enurgi (Online healthcare services company that connects families and patients-in-need with 1 million+ local, clinical caregivers across the country)
J. Parkinson, M.D. (Leading healthcare consumerism advocate and New York-based family practice physician)
ReliefInsite (Secure, online pain management services)

I’m looking forward to learning more about the format and concept as the work to define the standard continues. Read more about the development of the dCard effort via VentureBeat and the press (change:health blog post). More from Unity Stokes at Organized Wisdom here.

Note: Not to be confused with this D-Card - but the entire industry could learn a lot from the Big D (see this post). Great step forward by this group. Christopher, you understand - I’m just returning from the land of Animal Kingdom and Magical Kingdoms and still not back in reality. dCard: Health 2.0 Group Releases Standard for Physician Information

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Live — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 08:27:00 +0000

I just wanted to take a moment publicly to thank everyone at Temple University for the lovely conversation about my early draft paper on politics and method in public international law, which I offered yesterday at an international law seminar there. The redoubtable Peter Spiro, whose new book, Beyond Citizenship, is out from OUP and highly recommended even from a skeptic like me (I don’t think you can really take part in that debate without reading Peter’s book), organized things, and it was terrific. David Zaring, from Wharton, commented and was very patient and generous with comments on a very early stage, development stage paper. (You can see the gist of it in the post preceding this one.) I prefer to present very early stage papers where possible - meaning the point is not to show off something already done, but to develop it - precisely because I prefer getting comments at a point when the ideas are still being shaped. Once too far along, the ideas are a bit set in concrete and it feels like defending a completed paper, rather than getting help in developing a new one. David’s comments were extraordinarily useful. Likewise comments from the rest of the international law faculty and numbers of very thoughtful students. My thanks to everyone.

ps. A quick note to myself, so I don’t forget it when I get past the current crisis deadline and start working on this again. The broad background for this discussion, at least in matters of method, is the general decline of the humanities and the rise of social science as the way of explaining things. David was quite right to point to the method axis and suggest that it might better be labeled not prescriptivist and descriptivist, but humanities and social science. The subtext for the discussion of international law method might be the decline of Kant and the rise of Bentham. But it seems to me that a big part of this method issue in law is the role of quantitative modeling - and it is echoed across the academy as, for examples, business schools dump the marketing and motivational and leadership stuff and recast themselves as applied economics, etc. The humanities have themselves to blame for their loss of status, having embraced postmodernist theories that deprived them of any claim to authority, much less truth. No one looks to humanities, from novels to the essay to art to you-name-it, as a source of revelation. Social sciences, preferably with a statistical edge, have taken pride of place. The difficulty is that it is hard, at least in large swathes of law, to see that the new methods are as yet set to deliver. Mathematics in many of the new fields appears to be less a means of revelation than of a way of establishing an intellectual pecking order: the more math, the smarter you must be: but the relationship to truth in the real world appears murkier. Maybe one day the methods will pay off in unambiguous ways - I am no postmodernist, and I would like to hold out for ways of coming at complex social truth, including statistically. But much of it seems more promising as yet than able to deliver. How much of the stuff that I see in political science, IR, and international law in these new fields depends, for example, on survey research that cannot be made better than it is by any amount of statistical massage. Here is a moment for the humanities and its traditional emphasis on the interpretation of texts: consider the Pew survey questions for worldwide attitudes toward Americans, or about religions, etc., and consider the ambiguities that many of those polled might : when American pollsters are able to show a vastly better track record just for exit polls for national elections, then we might turn to consider the same issues on a worldwide cross cultural basis. But at the moment, it is more the promise of a method than a method. In that sense, the new quantitative methods of social science in the traditional humanities and law appear to be more exercises in post modernism than science. Sorry this is cryptic; it is really scattered notes to myself.

Thanks to Peter Spiro, David Zaring, and the folks at Temple University

Congrats to fellow health law blogger, David Harlow at HealthBlawg who does a wonderful job weaving together a special Valentine’s Day edition of Grand Rounds. David’s edition gets to the heart of the matter and includes a wide range of posts - covering the love hormone, the Dead, death from Q-tips, Lupercalia and so much more. Thanks David for including my last minute submission. David Harlow’s Grand Rounds Gets To the Heart of the Matter

Just pick up the latest news from Greg Piche of the Holland & Hart Healthcare Law Blog about the pending libel lawsuit against an anonymous blogger filed by Paris Regional Medical Center, a subsidiary of Essent. For some background on the case check out Jeff Drummond’s past post Hospital Sues Blogger.

The libel lawsuit filed last year by Paris Regional Medical Center seeks the unmasking of an anonymous blogger and nine other anonymous contributors or commentators on his/her blog.

The hospital sought the identity of the anonymous bloggers from Suddenlink who balked at disclosing the identity of the anonymous blogger until he/she was given notice and an opportunity to object. As a result the anonymous blogger appeared through an attorney and objected which were rejected by the trial court.

However, on appeal to the Court of Appeals for the Sixth Appellate District of Texas at Texarkana, I n re: Does 1-10, No. 06-07-00123-CV (Dec 12, 2007) followed the standard set out in Doe. V. Cahill, 884 A 2d 451 (De. 2005), granted the writ of mandamus and ordered the trial court to vacate its order requiring Suddenlink to disclose the name and address of the anonymous blogger. Basically, the court sustained the anonymous bloggers First Amendment rights of free speech until such time as the hopsital can show in a hearing at the trial court level that it has actually been damaged by the content of the blog.

The court analyzed the situation as follows:

The cases that have decided this issue range from placing an extremely light burden (indeed, virtually no burden at all) on the plaintiff, to requiring the plaintiff to tender proof of its allegations that would survive a summary judgment, or even more stringent requirements. At least one case has essentially concluded that the mere allegation of libel is sufficient. Alvis Coatings, Inc. v. John Does One Through Ten, No. 3:04CV374-H, 2004 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 30099 (W.D.N.C. Dec. 2, 2004). Other cases have articulated requirements that are so weak as to essentially require no more than allegations made in good faith (or not in bad faith), with some evidence to support the allegations. See Polito, 2004 Pa. Dist. & Cnty. Dec. LEXIS 340.

We cannot agree that either of these formulations is sufficient to survive any form of constitutional balancing. Thus, the question becomes the degree of actual proof that must be provided before the balance tips in favor of piercing the constitutional shield and disclosing the identity of the anonymous blogger.

We find ourselves more in alignment with the formulations set out in Cahill, 884 A.2d at 458-61. See extensive discussion about the application of this standard in Best W. Int’l, 2006 WL 2091695. The court in Cahill described the test as: “[B]efore a defamation plaintiff can obtain the identity of an anonymous defendant through the compulsory discovery process he must support his defamation claim with facts sufficient to defeat a summary judgment motion.” Cahill, 884 A.2d at 460. This standard does not require a plaintiff to prove its case as a matter of undisputed fact, but instead to produce evidence sufficient to create issues that would preclude summary judgment.

Hospitals and Anonymous Blogging: An Update of the Paris Regional Medical Center Lawsuit

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Live — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 19:26:09 +0000

Practical advice from Tony at Hospital Impact on the question of “should hospitals blog?” Good advice for anyone thinking about starting a health related or business blog.

I regularly follow both Nick Jacobs at Nick’s Blog and Paul Levy at Running a Hospital cited in Tony’s post. Both are examples of extremely successful blogging hospital CEOs who understand the Live Web medium. Take for example the fact that Paul commented on Tony’s post four hours after it was published (see the post comments).

I agree with Tony’s perspective and warning when he says:

It’s a lot of work and there is no hard-core ROI, but for the right type of person, it pays off in other ways. Both of these CEOs can probably point to examples where their blog put out a PR fire before it could start. They’ve built trust and credibility through the blog. They’ve humanized the hospital through the blog. So when fires do come (and of course, they will), they’re well positioned to engage authentically. We are entering an age where proactive transparency is rewarded and reactive transparency is lame.

One word of warning. Don’t blog if your organization:
* Doesn’t trust their employees.
* Doesn’t want to hear bad news.
* Wants absolute control over their message and reputation (this isn’t happening anymore anyways)
* (the kicker) Doesn’t have someone who’s really wired to do it.

Should Hospitals Blog?

Fellow health care blogger, Amy Tenderich of Diabetes Mine asked that I help spread the word about National Diabetes Month (November) and World Diabetes Day on November 14. Here is her post, Diabetes Mine: World Diabetes Day Agenda Grows, and Grows.

On November 14 landmarks around the world (including the Empire State Building) will be lighting up using the color of the World Diabetes Day logo.
Why don’t we light up something in West Virginia to show support? Why not the WV Capitol?

Why should West Virginians care about this? West Virginia ranks #1 in Adult’s with Diabetes in the United States at 11.1% (U.S. Average is 7.4%). For more information check out the WV Diabetes Prevention and Control Program (note: the summary info indicates WV rate in 2006 at 12.1%). Spread The Word: World Diabetes Day

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Grand Rounds . . . Revolution

Live — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 10:27:00 +0000

Grand Rounds Volume 4, No. 19 is up over at my favorite nurse blog, Emergiblog. Kim has wonderful vision into the world of health care and is a creative writer to boot.

I’ve gotten out of the habit of submitting posts to Grand Rounds. Never enough time in the day. However, I wish I would have submitted my Guitar Hero Health Care post from this week — it would have fit well in her Beatles theme. Find the Beatles link in my post.

Maybe I’ll email Kim as see if she will give me a Grand Rounds postscript note. Grand Rounds . . . Revolution

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