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Instrumental And Transformative Medical Technology, Nicole Huberfeld Professor Of Law
Instrumental And Transformative Medical Technology, Nicole Huberfeld Professor Of Law
Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment & Technology Law
This Article considers how medical technologies impact universality in health care. The universality principle, as embodied in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), eliminated widespread discriminatory practices and provided financial assistance to those otherwise unable to become insured--a democratizing federal act that was intended to stabilize health care policy nationwide. This Article posits that medical technology, as with all of medicine, can be universalizing or exclusionary and that this status roughly correlates to its being "instrumental technology" or "transformative technology." Instrumental technology acts as a tool of medicine and often serves an existing aspect of health care; in …
Electronic Medical Records: A Prescription For Increased Medical Malpractice Liability?, Blake Carter
Electronic Medical Records: A Prescription For Increased Medical Malpractice Liability?, Blake Carter
Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment & Technology Law
The cost and quality of health care is and most likely will continue to be one of the most important issues that the United States faces in the coming decade. Although no powerful antidote exists to cure this industry of all of its ailments, one potential suggestion to treat some of the symptoms is the introduction of electronic medical records (EMRs).
Members of the medical community, patients, and even politicians all agree that EMRs offer promising opportunities to improve the overall quality of health care. However, lost in the discussion of these opportunities, is a consideration of the potential side …
Two Wrongs Don't Make A Right: Medicaid, Section 1983 And The Cost Of An Enforceable Right To Health Care, Mark A. Ison
Two Wrongs Don't Make A Right: Medicaid, Section 1983 And The Cost Of An Enforceable Right To Health Care, Mark A. Ison
Vanderbilt Law Review
More than a trillion dollars annually is spent on the health care system .... Despite increases in medical care spending that are greater than the rate of inflation, population growth, and Gross Domestic Product growth, there has not been a commensurate improvement in our health status as a nation .... Despite our Nation's wealth, the health care system does not provide coverage to all Americans who want it. These words capture both the essence of America's public health care dilemma and the frustration felt by many of the lawmakers charged with the duty to solve it. The battle to lower …