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If you are a retailer, manufacturer, distributor, or importer of tobacco products, become familiar with the final rule by FDA Deeming Tobacco Products to be Subject to the Federal Food, Drug, and [...]

Digital health advances set healthcare law on edge because health tech develops exponentially while laws grow linearly.

Legal review of concierge medicine contracts is needed to handle regulatory issues & liability risks, as otherwise medical doctors opening concierge practices risk triggering all sorts of [...]

Is an online directory of healthcare centers a medical referral service? We’ve had several online directories of healthcare services ask us what legal rules govern their operation. Below we [...]

When medical doctors collaborate with other licensed healthcare providers (such as chiropractors) in a multidisciplinary, clinical care or integrative medicine setting, legal risks can arise that [...]

Healthcare bonuses raise fee-splitting and anti-kickback issues; is there a workaround?

In this, an open letter to Superintelligence, my algorithm for AI is simple: to blaze humanity’s path to the cosmos by delving into the part of the human data stream known as spirituality.

If you want to sell healthcare products online, the legal hurdles can be steep. 

Where healthcare policy & the future of humanity meet is at the intersection of technology and consciousness.

A benevolent AI (artificial intelligence) could usher in utopia... but will augmented intelligence destroy it?

Healthcare reform and declining Medicare reimbursement have thrown physicians for a financial loop; how can medical doctors increase physician income despite healthcare reform?

California, New York, Massachusetts, and other states that emphasize corporate practice of medicine & fee-splitting lead medical spa compliance enforcement.

Healthcare fraud remains a broad regulatory category that enforcement authorities can use against the manufacturer or distributor of a healthcare product that raises questions in the minds of [...]

P4 medicine takes healthcare to a whole level, requiring deeper understanding of how healthcare & FDA law shape the path to market for your healthcare service or product.

When buying, selling, or starting an urgent care center, be sure to handle legal and regulatory pitfalls adroitly.

Will artificial intelligence (AI) replace or augment professional human functions such as the analytical prowess and advisory skill of a talented attorney, as machine intelligence evolves, and [...]

A physician called our law firm, complaining that the management company had "embezzled" funds from the account for the medical doctor's clinic. What should he do?

Pundits prognosticate, but how do we measure a future for healthcare when every trend morphs asymptotically?

If you want to know where the next healthcare revolution will come from, look inside. Physical medicine becomes virtual medicine, becomes mobile healthcare, becomes wearable health and then [...]

Integrative medicine is morphing from an extension of complementary medicine and/or intrusion into conventional care, into everyday prevention and wellness. Find out how three integrative [...]

Learn how to rock concierge medicine laws by answering some key concierge medicine legal questions.

Health care governing boards can look to "Practical Guidance for Health Care Governing Boards on Compliance Oversight" for advice in designing a compliance program.

Arkansas has a enacted statute encouraging telemedicine use. In Arkansas, SB 133, designed to "encourage the use of telemedicine," advises all state agencies to evaluate and amend their policies [...]

Once you "friend" your refrigerator on Facebook (because it's that smart, and knows about your dietary and nutritional habits than your doctor), healthcare will be unrecognizable even to fans of [...]

Today a client asked me, "are you worried about the drought?" I said, "No, I'm worried about AI eating the world."

No sooner had the ink dried on my post, Telemedicine: The Medicine of the Future, than some blogger pronounced telemedicine the "medicine of the past." There, by a stroke of the pen, someone [...]

Healthcare & FDA lawyer Michael H Cohen speaks on MHealth & Wearable Health Technology: Will FDA Legal Compliance Stymie or Promote Innovation, at the Health Law Section of the Los Angeles County [...]

If you're in any business at all, you must read Data Crush: How the Information Tidal Wave Is Driving New Business Opportunities by Christopher Surdak; pay extra attention to Data Crush if you're [...]

Expect to see more and more compliance enforcement actions against physician practices - and also more physician awareness of how they can pro-actively manage liability and follow legal [...]

In the showdown at the commercial coral between concierge medical practices and retail medicine, which one will trump? With these two behemoths taking such a chunk out of traditional medical [...]

The Supreme Court case of North Carolina Board of Dental Examiners v. FTC is, in some ways, a watershed in terms of judicial resistance to monopolization of health care practices by a licensing board.

New York's Attorney General initiated the investigation against major retailers of herbal supplements, based on DNA testing of plant materials suggesting contaminants, and mislabeling; was the [...]

Unlike California, which provides clear guidance regarding legal and enforcement hot buttons for medical spas and integrative care clinics, Massachusetts law requires more digging.

Yoga therapy brings the art of yoga to therapeutic issues and is a natural extension of yoga for wellness and general health; but when does yoga therapy cross the line into unlicensed practice?

Concierge Medicine Today featured “Does Concierge Medicine Advertising Create Liability” by healthcare and FDA Michael H. Cohen. The article analyzes the recent verdict against MDVIP based on [...]

Virtual reality in medicine and health will augment and expand our sense of reality - yet it's only a harbinger of deeper access to consciousness.