Publications for Renee Martin

• Analyzing adverse events: OIG finds hospital incident reporting systems come up short.
• OIG issues report on CMS handling of Serious adverse events
• CMS Issues Final ACO Regulations
• New CMS survey guidance for hospitals reporting medication errors
• Final ADAA Disability Regulations are Now in Effect
• Federal Initiatives to Drive Quality of Care: What Patient Safety Officers Need to Know
• Proposed CMS Regulations on Accountable Care Organizations and the Medicare Shared Savings Program
• HHS Issues Breach Notification Rules
• Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act of 2005--Final Regulations Effective January 2009
• Red Flag Rules
• HIPAA Final Enforcement Rule and the Pennsylvania breach of Personal Information Act
• Pennsylvania DOH Issues Draft Facility Regulations
• HIPPA's Business Associate Agreement Requirements: What Every Lawyer Should Know - Mar 2003
• HIPPA's Business Associate Agreement Requirements - What Every Lawyer Should Know - Jan 2003
• PPS Strikes Again
• CMS Issues Guidance on EMTALA's Application to Hospital Provider Based Departments
• So You've Been Sued
• HHS Issues HIPAA Guidance
• Confidentiality in Health Care Records
• Standing Orders
• New PPS to Affect Hospital Outpatient Services
• Nursing and Collective Bargaining - An Overview
• Fraud and Abuse Regulation of Health Web Sites
• Liability in Volunteering
• Confidentiality of Medical Records in the Information Age
• Pennsylvania Nurse's Lawsuit Over Firing for Refusing Assignment Can Proceed
• New Peer Review Confidentiality Issues
• Physician Liability for Ignoring Patient Self-Directives
• ERISA Protection Gone for HMOs in Pennsylvania
• Staff Privilege Denial and Disability Discrimination
• Movement on Vicarious HMO Liability
• Compliance Observer: OIG Hospital Guidance Poses Challenges
• Practitioner Legal Liability: When Utilization Review Says No
• Advanced Directives: Legal Implications for Nurses

Other Attorneys

• The Firm
• Thomas Sweeney
• Ernest Tsoules
• Susan Orr

Publication : Renee Martin JD, RN, MSN : Federal Initiatives to Drive Quality of Care: What Patient Safety Officers Need to Know

Article written by Renee H. Martin, JD, RN, MSN and Katherine Autieri, JD, appeared in the May/June 2011 issue of the Patient Safety & Quality Healthcare Magazine.