Healthcare Compliance Certification Program at Seton Hall Law School 4 Jun 2013 | 01:16 am

June 10-13, 2013, Newark, New Jersey NY/NJ CLE credits available Program Overview This four-day educational program, held twice a year, immerses attendees in the statutes, regulations, and other guida...

Sterilization Matters 31 May 2013 | 09:04 pm

When patients undergo surgical or other medical procedures, they hope to receive optimal care provided by experienced physicians. They are rarely concerned about proper sterilization of surgical instr...

Managing Whistleblower Risk and Liability 28 May 2013 | 08:26 pm

Last week, the Jersey Journal reported that a jury recently awarded a former employee of Bayonne Medical Center over $2.1 million in his whistleblower suit against the hospital.  The employee, Ceferin...

Memorial Day, Remembering our Veterans With Treatment 27 May 2013 | 05:44 pm

It is Memorial Day, and like in past years I will ask that we take a moment here to consider the sacrifices at the heart  of this holiday—we remember our fallen, we memorialize our dead. At present, t...

Professor John Jacobi In NJ BIZ & NJ Spotlight on New Jersey Health Reform 23 May 2013 | 11:51 pm

Professor John Jacobi took part in the Council on State Public Affairs’ “New Jersey State of Health” symposium, covered by NJ BIZ and NJ Spotlight. The symposium brought together the state’s leading h...

PPACA’s Expansion of ERISA: External Review Processes 17 May 2013 | 09:05 pm

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) has, in large part,  overhauled the American health care system— and the national dialogue that has resulted from PPACA’s enactment is seemingly ...

Recommended Reading: New Legal Scholarship from Ryan Abbott and Jennifer Herbst on Pharmacovigilance Topics 14 May 2013 | 09:54 pm

In his article Big Data and Pharmacovigilance: Using Health Information Exchanges to Revolutionize Drug Safety, which is forthcoming in the Iowa Law Review, Ryan Abbott argues that third parties, incl...

Online Health Law Graduate Certificate Programs 9 May 2013 | 09:41 am

Transplants and the Dilemma of Increased Suicide Risk 30 Apr 2013 | 02:22 am

Bone marrow transplant recipients have been found to commit suicide at more than twice the rate of the general population, according to a recent European study. With a sample of almost 300,000 bone ma...

Actavis and the FTC — What it Means and Might Mean 26 Apr 2013 | 01:48 am

On March 25, 2013, oral arguments were given before the Supreme Court for FTC v. Actavis, in what the government is calling a “pay to delay” case.  This potentially very important case could have a de...