Healing at the Borderland of Medicine and Religion – Review

Thanks to Joshua Grossman, MD for a review of Healing at the Borderland of Medicine and Religion in the Journal of the National Medical Association.

Cohen Healthcare Law Group Yelp attorney review

We appreciate a new review on Yelp for the Cohen Healthcare Law Group.

FDA Requires Cyber Security Plan Submission for Medical Devices

FDA now requires a cyber security plan in your medical device submission. On June 14, 2013, FDA issued Draft Guidance on Content of Premarket Submissions for Management of Cybersecurity in [...]

Michael H Cohen quoted in Los Angeles Bar Journal

Michael H Cohen was quoted in the Los Angeles Bar Journal in the Legal Forum: Malpractice Malaise, an appendix to Attorney, Heal Thyself.

Mobile App Developers Can Be Slammed by FTC or FDA

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) requires that advertising be truthful and not misleading, and will take enforcement action if mobile app developers make deceptive claims about their apps.

LARTA Commercialization Assistance Program

Michael H. Cohen participated in the LARTA Commercialization Assistance Program in Los Angeles (April 2013), sponsored by the National Institutes of Health, as a mentor to provide guidance to [...]

Affordable Care Act creates scope of practice legislative scramble for healthcare practitioners

Healthcare reform is creating incentives for even more legislative scrambles by different practitioner lobbying groups for favorable legislation that will protect, preserve, and expand their own [...]

HIPAA and state law privacy claims stand while medical malpractice claim falls

A federal court in Indiana rules that patient's HIPAA and state privacy claims could stand, based on the allegation that a physician shared information about the patient's medical condition with [...]

HIPAA Omnibus Rule: Part 8 (Breach Analysis)

The HIPAA Omnibus rule makes a number of additional important changes to breach analysis in case of a breach of unsecured PHI.

HIPAA Omnibus Rule: Part 6 (Business Associate Agreements)

The new HIPAA Omnibus Rule requires that some changes to the rules about business associate agreements must be made.