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Government Delay Reduces False Claims Act Verdict – How Can This Protect Your Practice?

Hall Render

The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals refused the defendants’ request to overturn the entire verdict but enforced the consequences of the government’s prejudicial delay by tying the conduct together with the government’s failure to toll the statute of limitations for many of its claims. The ruling in U.S. Aldridge v. Corporate Mgmt.,

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Strengthening the Freedom of Information Act in 2023

Bill of Health

As the Congressional Research Service puts it: “[i]n FOIA, Congress sought to establish a statutory scheme that embodied ‘a broad philosophy of ‘freedom of information’ and ensured ‘the availability of Government information necessary to an informed electorate.’” FOIA is among the most democratic of America’s laws. Anyone can use it.

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Biosafety Labs, Public Safety, and Politics

Bill of Health

dollars (USD) and additional government losses at $11 billion USD due to controlling livestock movement and depopulating infected livestock. The decision to site the lab at Kansas State was only made in 2009 and that was after a long site selection competition. By November of 2008, a new President was elected. Who was she?

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Two Years On: The Reversal of Tanzania’s Education Policies for Adolescent Mothers

Bill of Health

Still, interviews with government and school officials demonstrate d a widespread belief that expulsion of pregnant students was required by law. The hospital, working in partnership with the government, was preparing to open a maternity wing specifically to reach pregnant adolescents.

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Interoperability: How Hospitals Share Healthcare Data Can Cost Lives, We Can All Do Better

HIT Consultant

As recently as 2023, between 30 and 47 percent of hospitals across all sizes reported still using fax or mail to send and receive patient records, according to the Government Accountability Office. Sharing data through faxing and CDs is still very common. Healthcare interoperability – it’s so promising, but confusing at the same time.

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Regulators Need to Pay More Attention to Long-term and Nursing Care

Healthcare IT Today

But these facilities are afterthoughts in our health care system, and were excluded in particular from the huge digitization of health care triggered in the United States by the 2009 HITECH act and 2010 Affordable Care Act.

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Using Legal Preparedness to Minimize Liability Barriers to Accessing Pandemic Vaccine and Medical Countermeasures

Bill of Health

Widespread international health emergencies, and particularly pandemics, can lead to a major imbalance of negotiating power between manufacturers and governments. Governments may face difficult policy decisions in their attempts to expeditiously control the spread of disease. Government, the U.S.

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