FDA regulates mobile medical apps, medical device data systems, and medical device software as “connected health”

What do we call our emerging futurist healthcare-- digital health, e-health, m-health, mobile medicine, tele-health, or old-fashioned "medicine?" FDA is "hip" with its terms, "connected health."

Does HIPAA scale for a physician practice? Is HIPAA compliance mandatory?

HIPAA sounds like "hippo" for a reason: it's big, clunky, noisy, and unwieldy. Can, and should, a small physician practice implement HIPAA practices? HIPAA Is it worth the effort?

Navigating spirituality in medical situations – what doctors and patients need to know

Michael H Cohen was quoted in A Sacred Space: Navigating Religion and Spirituality in Medical Situations, in The New Physician, for comments on spirituality in medicine and health care

Packaging medical services – is it a legal concierge arrangement, or an illegal kickback?

If you're a medical doctor, dentist, acupuncturist, chiropractor, or other licensed healthcare provider, and you offer your patients "9 sessions, get 1 free," have you violated kickback laws?

Is it fee-splitting for medical doctors to share revenues with non-medical business owners?

"I provide medical (or acupuncture, chiropractic, osteopathic, massage) services on an hourly basis and get paid a percentage of revenues in return.” Is that fee-splitting?

Michael H Cohen quoted in USA Today on Healthcare Legal Issues

Bay Area / San Francisco and Los Angeles lawyer Michael H Cohen was quoted by CNBC in USA Today on healthcare issues.