The rule issued by the Texas Medical Board requiring physicians to conduct a face-to-face or in-person visit with a patient in order to establish a defined physician-patient relationship, was not slated to go into effect until June 3, 2015. With the […]
Telemedicine will no doubt make an impact on the way health care is delivered in Texas, as well as in the rest of the country. Teladoc, a Dallas-based provider of telehealth services, given its continued conflicts with the Texas Medical Board dating […]
In a surprising move on Monday, the Texas Medical Board (TMB) voluntarily dismissed its appeal to the Fifth Circuit in the antitrust challenge brought by Dallas-based Teledoc, the largest provider of telehealth services in the U.S. The appeal requested […]
October is National Cyber Security Awareness Month, and Week Two focuses on the protection of data in the workplace. “We are all part of protecting personal and organizational data in the workplace. From CEO to incoming entry-level employee, each […]
Johnson & Johnson has produced a Wi-Fi enabled One Touch Ping insulin pump system that allows users to send commands to the pump. This pump has been on the market for eight years, and as a result the system in the pump is not encrypted. This […]
On Thursday, September 22, 2016, Yahoo publicized a 2014 data breach “associated with at least 500 million user accounts.”[1] This may be the largest data breach ever, in terms of those affected.[2] Experts believe it could have a ripple effect […]
In an effort to better facilitate federal response to cyber-incidents[1] the Obama Administration released a Presidential Policy Directive on United States Cyber Incident Coordination (“PPD”)[2] on July 26, 2016. The PPD is a continuation of […]
Click here for latest post in KRCL’s Law in the Workplace Blog, discussing the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act and the Ninth Circuit’s precedential decision on password sharing under the CFAA.
The Northwestern Journal of Law & Social Policy published an article this past spring that does a pretty good job of articulating the various concerns with the current scheme of state and federal peer review immunities, along with the state peer […]
In an effort to balance the needs of multinational companies and European Union citizen’s right to privacy the United States and European Union are working together to craft an EU-U.S. Privacy Shield to facilitate the transfer of the personal data […]
Physicians struggle to make money in the current health care environment. Taking care of patients just does not pay the bills like it used to anymore—and provides a lousy business model. Employed physicians make a salary with limited bonus opportunities […]
In issuing the order, the court inserted itself in the debate between national security and security in one’s own private, personal information. But the court didn’t rely on some post-9/11 counterterrorism statute for its authority, but instead on […]