Organ Donations - All You Need to Know - Since organ demand far exceeds supply, there are federal and state laws designed to increase donations.
Publisher: The 'Lectric Law Library     Author: Parsons Technology Inc.   

Peer Discipline Off-Limits When Suing Physician - Even if your doctor previously had his medical license suspended, don't try to use that against him in a medical malpractice suit.
Publisher: Law.com     Author: Tom Collins   

Pharmaceuticals: A prescription for profits - The pharmaceutical industry isn't as sexy as biotechnology, but pharmaceutical drugs are where big money is made.
Publisher: Upside.com     Author: Lily Louie   

Prescription Conniption - Prescription-benefit companies' plans for an online drug prescribing system could eliminate doctor's chicken-scratch handwriting and boost profits.
Publisher: Business 2.0     Author: Carolyn Marshall   

Second Opinion - Opinion Over the past two years, health-care innovators have seen big promises about the Web give way to big disappointments. Now they're giving the Web another look. Have they stopped thinking big? Not at all.
Publisher: Fast Company     Author: George Anders   

Secrets? What secrets? - There is a concern that private health information could be obtained by those outside the appropriate health-care community. The goal is to seek a balance between the uninterrupted provision of medical services and the protection of individual privacy.
Publisher: Business Law Today     Author: Julia A. Barnes   

Strategic Innovation: The Children's Hospital at Montefiore - Dr. Irwin Redlener has spent his career devising solutions to large-scale problems of health care for disenfranchised children. The latest expression of his single-minded agenda combines excellence in pediatric care with cutting-edge design, the latest technology, and the worldview of Carl Sagan.
Publisher: Fast Company     Author: Polly LaBarre   

Support for Academic Medical Centers -- Revisiting the 1997 Balanced Budget Act - With many academic medical centers reeling from the combined financial pressures of managed care and the Balanced Budget Act of 1997, their advocates have descended on Washington seeking relief.
Publisher: The New England Journal of Medicine     Author: John K. Iglehart   

The American Health Care System -- Expenditures - The United States operates a health care system that is unique among nations. It is the most expensive of systems, outstripping by over half again the health care expenditures of any other country.
Publisher: The New England Journal of Medicine     Author: John K. Iglehart   

The American Health Care System -- Wall Street and Health Care - The trend toward investor ownership profoundly influenced the underlying "product" -- the delivery of health care.
Publisher: The New England Journal of Medicine     Author: Robert Kuttner