Copyright 2010 Tevi Troy Tue, 07 Sep 2010 17:40:03 -0400 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Tevi Troy :: Writings http://www.tevitroy.org tevitroy@gmail.com (Tevi Troy) webmaster@pundicity.com en-us http://www.tevitroy.org/7927/obama-biological-countermeasures Sun, 5 Sep 2010 09:00:00 EST President Barack Obama announced in his State of the Union address "a new initiative that will give us the capacity to respond faster and more effectively to bioterrorism or an infectious disease — a plan that will counter threats at home and strengthen... http://www.tevitroy.org/7874/slow-down-health-it Fri, 20 Aug 2010 09:00:00 EST With federal checks for electronic health records only months away, our nation's health care system is on the brink of an unprecedented digital makeover. The stage was set for this technological revolution when $20 billion in government money for health... http://www.tevitroy.org/7740/obama-czars Thu, 22 Jul 2010 09:00:00 EST As the world hopes that good news about the BP oil spill cap continues, there already are worrisome signs about the oversight and management in the next phase of this oil spill fiasco. No fewer than nine formal investigations into the Gulf oil spill are... http://www.tevitroy.org/2010/07/obama-hiv-aids-plan Tue, 13 Jul 2010 13:00:00 EST Here are five things you should know about the Obama administration's new HIV/AIDS policy and its just-released strategy and implementation plan on the subject: 1. The plan is more open about the issue of racial and gender disparities among HIV-positive... http://www.tevitroy.org/7708/process-for-confirming-senior-administration Mon, 12 Jul 2010 09:00:00 EST The Obama administration's premature recess appointment of Dr. Donald Berwick to head CMS is further evidence that the process for selecting and confirming senior administration appointees is broken. In trying to defend the move, White House adviser... http://www.tevitroy.org/2010/07/baucus-on-berwick Thu, 8 Jul 2010 11:48:00 EST The White House's plan to lay all of the blame for the Obama administration's recess appointment of Dr. Don Berwick on recalcitrant Republicans appears to have been upended by Democratic senator and Finance Committee chairman Max Baucus, who has... http://www.tevitroy.org/7716/foreign-clinical-drug-trials-safe Thu, 8 Jul 2010 09:00:00 EST The findings of the recent HHS study showing large numbers of clinical trials conducted outside the U.S. should come as no surprise to followers of the drug development process. It is extremely expensive to create new products—averaging 10 years and a... http://www.tevitroy.org/2010/07/berwick-blues Wed, 7 Jul 2010 15:14:00 EST As one who generally believes that administrations should receive deference in their personnel selections, I found the recess appointment of Dr. Donald Berwick to be the administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) disturbing.... http://www.tevitroy.org/7640/president-lord-of-the-flies Wed, 23 Jun 2010 09:00:00 EST During a health-care speech in the East Room of the White House yesterday, President Obama took a swat at a pesky, speech-interrupting fly, garnering a laugh from his audience in the process. He then noted that the crowd had "seen me grab one of those... http://www.tevitroy.org/2010/06/obama-health-insurers-price-hike Tue, 22 Jun 2010 15:16:00 EST President Obama's speech today seemed designed to reassure us that all is well with the new health-care law, from both the implementation and the policy perspective. Unfortunately, all is not as well as he is making things out to be. On the... http://www.tevitroy.org/7620/obama-israel-and-american-jews Thu, 17 Jun 2010 09:00:00 EST Two recent Jerusalem Post headlines on the same April day encapsulate our current moment. The first declared: "Most Americans unhappy with Obama's handling of Israel ties." The second: "Jewish leaders caught between criticizing, defending Obama." What a... http://www.tevitroy.org/7597/obamacare-implementation-hiccups Thu, 10 Jun 2010 09:00:00 EST On May 27, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius called a press conference to declare victory in the implementation of President Obama's massive health-care plan. She told reporters that "two months in, it's clear we're heading in the... http://www.tevitroy.org/7542/the-odd-couple-metric Tue, 1 Jun 2010 09:00:00 EST Crime experts and citizens alike have been wondering how it's possible that crime in New York City continues to go down during a crippling recession. In 2009, Gotham set a record for its fewest homicides since record-keeping began (though the murder rate... http://www.tevitroy.org/7513/kagan-white-house-emails Thu, 27 May 2010 09:00:00 EST The Obama administration has asked the National Archives to release 11,000 pages of Elena Kagan's White House e-mails, and an additional 68,000 pages of e-mails she received while working there. With the e-mails slated for release this summer, proponents... http://www.tevitroy.org/2010/05/vaccine-wars Tue, 25 May 2010 17:00:00 EST AP medical writer Maria Cheng has the best story on Andrew Wakefield's expulsion from the ranks of British doctors for his flawed study purporting to link the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine with autism. Cheng goes beyond the action against...