Recent Case Developments in Health Law

See In re Conservatorship of Burton, 88 Cal. Rptr. 3d 524 (Ct. App. 2009).

See id., at 526.

Cal. Prob. Code § 813(a), (a)(2) (West 2002).

Falcón M. J. y Tella , Civil Disobedience, trans. Muckley P. (Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill Academic Publishers, 2004): At 105–06.

See Weatherford D. , A History of the American Suffragist Movement (Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 1998): at 218.

See Fessler D. M. T. , “The Implications of Starvation Induced Psychological Changes for the Ethical Treatment of Hunger Strikers,” Journal of Medical Ethics 29, no. 4 (2003): 243; Golden T. , “Guantanamo Detainees Stage Hunger Strike,” New York Times, April 9, 2007, at A12.

See Falcón y Tella , supra note 4, at 105.

Turner v. Safley , 482 U.S. 78, 89 (1987).

Washington v. Harper , 494 U.S. 210, 214 n.2 (1990).

Id., at 214.

Id., at 215 (quoting Washington Special Offender Center Policy 600.30).

“[N]or shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.” U.S. Const. amend. XIV, § 1.

See Harper , supra note 9, at 225.

Compare Cal. Const. art. I, § 1 (“All people are by nature free and independent and have inalienable rights. Among these are…privacy.”) with Griswold v. Connecticut, 381 U.S. 479, 484 (1965) (“Various guarantees [of the U.S. Constitution] create zones of privacy.”).

In re Qawi , 81 P.3d 224, 231 (Cal. 2004).

Id. (quoting Addington v. Texas, 441 U.S. 418, 426 (1979)).

Cal. Prob. Code § 3201(b) (West 1991 & Supp. 2009).

See Cal. Prob. Code § 3208(a) (West 1991 & Supp. 2009).

Burton , supra note 1, at 526–27.

Id., at 525–26.

Id., at 526.

Id. (quoting a prison psychiatrist).

Id., at 526–27.

Cal. Prob. Code § 811(b) (West 2002).

Cal. Prob. Code § 813(a), (a)(2) (West 2002).

Burton , supra note 1, at 528–29.

Id., at 528.

Id., at 529.

Id., at 529–30.

Id., at 530.

See Fessler , supra note 6, at 244.

Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs, American Medical Association, Code of Medical Ethics of the American Medical Association (Chicago: American Medical Association, 2006): At § 2.20.

Kahan D. M. , “Some Realism About Retroactive Criminal Lawmaking,” Roger Williams University Law Review 3, no. 1 (1997): 111. See generally Llewellyn K. N. , The Common Law Tradition: Deciding Appeals (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1960): At 121–57.

See Morse S. J. , “A Preference for Liberty: The Case Against Involuntary Commitment of the Mentally Disordered,” California Law Review 70, no. 1 (1982): 54.

Decision Memo for Surgery on the Wrong Body Part (CAG-00402N): 1.

AHRQ Study Finds Wrongsite Surgery Rare and Preventable , Press Release, April 17, 2006, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD., available at <http://www.ahrq.gov/news/press/pr2006/wrongsitepr.htm> (last visited February 17, 2009).

Decision Memo for Surgery on the Wrong Body Part, supra note 1: at 1

42 U.S.C. 1395y(a)(1)(A).

AHRQ Study Finds Wrongsite Surgery Rare and Preventable, supra note 2.

National Quality Forum, Serious Reportable Events in Healthcare: Fact Sheet, available at <http://www.qualityforum.org/projects/completed/sre/> (last visited February 28, 2009).

Leapfrog Group Position Statement on Never Events, available at <http://www.leapfroggroup.org/for_hospitals/leapfrog_hospital_quality_and_safety_urvey_copy/never_events> (last visited March 8, 2009).

Decision Memo for Surgery on the Wrong Body Part, supra note 1, at 3.

Decision Memo for Surgery on the Wrong Body Part, supra note 1, at 5.

There is not currently a national reporting system for never events, though several states have made reporting mandatory. See Kizer K. Stegun M. , “Serious Reportable Adverse Events in Health Care,” available at <http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.giv/books/bv.fcgi?rid=aps.section.7695> (last visited March 8, 2009).

The Joint Commission, Facts About the Universal Protocol, available at <http://www.jointcommission.org/Patient-Safety/UniversalProtocol/up_facts.htm> (last visited February 19, 2009).

The AMA argued during the public comment period that claims processors do not have the requisite “expertise to determine whether certain surgical procedures are performed correctly.” Decision Memo for Surgery on the Wrong Body Part, supra note 1: at 6.

Aleccia J. , More States Shred Bills for Awful Medical Errors, available at <www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26081421/> (last visited February 18, 2009).

An EHR is a record of “electronically maintained information about an individual's lifetime health status and health care, stored such that it can serve. multiple legitimate users.” Shortliffe E. H. Cimino J. J. , eds., Biomedical Informatics: Computer Applications in Health Care and Biomedicine , 3rd ed., (New York: Springer, 2006): 937; Steinbrook R. , “Health Care and the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act,” New England Journal of Medicine 360, no. 11 (2009): 1057–60.

Ableson Reed , “While the U.S. Spends Heavily on Health Care, a Study Faults the Quality,” New York Times, July 17, 2008, at C3.

Protti D. J. Edworthy S. Johansen I. , “Adoption of Information Technology in Primary Care Physician Offices in Alberta and Denmark: Part 1 – Historical, Technical and Cultural Forces,” Electronic Healthcare 6, no. 1 (2007): 95–102.

See Ableson , supra note 3.

Blumenthal D. , The Federal Role in Promoting Health Information Technology (New York: The Commonwealth Fund Perspectives on Health Reform, January 2009) available at <http://www.commonwealthfund.org/Content/Publications/Perspectives-on-Health-Reform-Briefs/2009/Jan/The-Federal-Role-in-Promoting-Health-Information-Technology.aspx.> (last visited April 13, 2009).

Kohn L. T. , eds., To Err Is Human: Building A Safer Health System 1–2 (Washington, D.C.: National Academies Press, 2000).

Hoffman S. Podgurski A. , “Finding a Cure: The Case for Regulation and Oversight of Electronic Health Record Systems: Case Legal Studies Research Paper No. 08–13,” Harvard Journal of Law and Technology 22, no. 1 (2008): 103–165, at 105.

Walker M. , “Electronic Medical Records Can Cure Potential Nightmares,” San Francisco Business Times, March 29, 2002, available at <http://sanfrancisco.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/stories/2002/04/01/newscolumn2.html> (last visited April 14, 2009).

See Blumenthal , supra note 6.

Girosi F. , “Extrapolating Evidence of Health Information Technology Savings and Costs,” Rand Health 35–36 (2005), available at <http://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/2005/RAND_MG410.pdf> (last visited April 14, 2009). The other format I've seen for this item is the book citation- as follows: Girosi F. , Extrapolating Evidence of Health Information Technology Savings and Costs (RAND Corporation: Santa Monica, 2005), available at <http://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/2005/RAND_MG410.pdf> (last visited April 14, 2009).

See Hoffman Podgurski , supra note 8.

Doolan D. F. Bates D. W. , “Computerized Physician Order Entry Systems in Hospitals: Mandates and Incentives,” Health Affairs 21. no. 4 (2002): 180–188, at 180, 183–184.

See Hoffman Podgurski , supra note 8, at 153.

Id., at 117.

Editorial, “The Candidates' Health Plans,” New York Times, October 28, 2008, at A30

King M. , “Health Care Reform: We Can't Afford to Wait to Fix This Broken System,” The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, December 14, 2008, at 12A.

See Steinbrook , supra note 1.

See <http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/omb/expectmore/summary/10003553.2006.html> (last visited April 14, 2009.

Steinbrook , supra note 1.

Blumenthal , supra note 6.

Pear R. , “Daschle Will Lead Health Care Overhaul,” New York Times, December 11, 2008, at 28.

See Hoffman Podgurski , supra note 8.

Marks A. , “In Digitizing Healthcare, A Battle over Patient Privacy,” Christian Science Monitor, February 11, 2009, at 1, available at <http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0211/p02s01-usec.html> (last visited April 14, 2009).

Collins Eve , “HIPAA Compliance Strategies: National Review of HIPAA Compliance Finds Rampant Confusion, Mistakes,” Report on Patient Privacy and AIS's HIPAA Compliance Center, Atl. Information Services., Inc., Washington, D.C., 2007, available at <http://www.aishealth.com/Compliance/Hipaa/RPP_National_Review_Rampant_Mistakes.html> (last visited April 14, 2009).

45 C.F.R. § 160.103

See Steinbrook , supra note 1.

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 , H.R.1. available at <http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/F?c111:8:./temp/∼c111dDSWC0:e351310:.> (last visited April 15, 2009).

Office Of Inspector General, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, “Nationwide Review of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 Oversight I-II,” 2008, available at <http://oig.hhs.gov/oas/reports/region4/40705064.pdf> (last visited April 14, 2009).

American Civil Liberties Union, “The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 Health Information Technology Privacy Summary,” available at <http://www.aclu.org/images/asset_upload_file625_38771.pdf> (last visited April 14, 2009).