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American Diagnostic Radiology Moves Offshore: Is This Field Riding The "Internet Wave" Into A Regulatory Abyss?, Archie A. Alexander Iii Jan 2007

American Diagnostic Radiology Moves Offshore: Is This Field Riding The "Internet Wave" Into A Regulatory Abyss?, Archie A. Alexander Iii

Journal of Law and Health

Recent trends in the American workplace are suggesting that outsourcing is becoming more commonplace, and currently no job or its work product may be safe from outsourcing. American blue-collar workers are certainly not surprised by these trends because they have experienced outsourcing related job losses since the early 1970s. Even those white-collar jobs traditionally considered immune to outsourcing pressures, such as those held by medical specialists, are now threatened. Most workers know outsourcing as a process whereby a domestic firm transfers some portion of their work product or a job to a different firm that resides either onshore in America …


American Diagnostic Radiology Moves Offshore: Surfing The Internet Wave To Worldwide Access And Quality Perspectives: American Diagnostic Radiology Moves Offshore: Where Is The Internet Wave Taking This Field, Eric M. Nyberg, Charles F. Lanzieri Jan 2007

American Diagnostic Radiology Moves Offshore: Surfing The Internet Wave To Worldwide Access And Quality Perspectives: American Diagnostic Radiology Moves Offshore: Where Is The Internet Wave Taking This Field, Eric M. Nyberg, Charles F. Lanzieri

Journal of Law and Health

International reading of medical imaging studies, or offshore teleradiology, has been a successful, though limited, practice benefiting patients and physicians for over a decade. Domestic and international market forces will continue to expand the demand for teleradiology as an important complement to United States based diagnostic radiology, though a full exodus of diagnostic reading to offshore sites is unlikely and inappropriate. Considerable obstacles remain to taking the teleradiology market to scale; however, barriers related to licensure, liability, quality assurance, and reimbursement will likely yield to market forces to be resolved in recognition of the significant benefits teleradiology offers to consumers …


In Search Of The Golden Years: How Compulsory Licensing Can Lower The Price Of Prescription Drugs For Millions Of Senior Citizens In The United States, Debjani Roy Jan 2004

In Search Of The Golden Years: How Compulsory Licensing Can Lower The Price Of Prescription Drugs For Millions Of Senior Citizens In The United States, Debjani Roy

Cleveland State Law Review

This article will show that compulsory licensing is the best remedy for the escalating cost of prescription drugs in the United States. Section II will provide a historical overview of American pharmaceutical patent law and will introduce the concept of compulsory licensing as a method to decrease the high cost of prescription drugs for senior citizens in the United States. Section III will look at the newly enacted Medicare Prescription Drug and Modernization Act, and state and local government plans to import cheaper brand-name prescription drugs from Canada. Section IV will look at the United States' international support for compulsory …