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By W. Scott Johnson In the 2016 session of the Virginia General Assembly, Del. Greg Ha­beeb, R-Salem, introduced House Bill 1130 to establish a fee schedule governing requests for patient re­cords maintained electronically and to revise the fee schedule for ...

By Brandy Burnette Balding As the opioid crisis in Virginia has escalated, several new laws and regulations have been adopted that affect the Prescription Monitor­ing Program and its database. Many of the new laws and regulations con­cern a provider’s duty ...

By Aaron Rothert Let’s face it: We need email. But we also need a way to control the beast that email can become. It is estimated that almost 30 percent of our workday is consumed by dealing with email. How do ...

A judge’s decision to allow a con­tributory negligence defense in a medical malpractice case has been upheld by the Supreme Court of Virginia. The court last month decided not to take up an appeal in the case of an emergency ...

Whoever coined the phrase “no good deed goes unpunished” likely was in­spired by something other than the liability implications of pro bono med­ical services, but that proverbial wis­dom may have no clearer application in the health law arena than the ...

Beloit College in Wisconsin has made a name for itself with its “Mindset List.” That is an annual compendium re­marking on the way incoming freshman think and view themselves and their world. It’s a catalog of the cultural touch­points familiar ...

The University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business and School of Nursing are partnering to train physician-nurse pairs together for the first time, reports The Daily Progress.  

Internist Dr. Apostolos Dallas is being recognized this year by the American College of Physicians for his work outside his own office. The story from The Roanoke Times.  

Virginia could be vulnerable to increased federal scrutiny of its mental health system unless the state begins to consolidate public hospital care, especially for elderly people with mental illness, the state’s top behavioral health official warned legislators last week. Details ...

A group of legislators is urging reform of Virginia’s “monopolistic” and “inefficient” health care system, reports the Capital News Service.