As a health lawyer it is easy to hyper focus on HHS, but FTC, FCC etc. all have roles to play in regulating health. I. Glenn Cohen, Eli Adashi and I analyze the FTC's involvement in protecting health data.

A huge thank you for everyone tweeting (and emailing and texting and saying) such lovely things. The Petrie-Flom Center team has been such a joy and I feel honored to have six years of being I. Glenn Cohen co-pilot.

My undergraduate thesis was comparing bioethical and traditional jewish positions on abortion, to remind readers that not all religious traditions are anti-abortion. Good to see it reflected in practice. nytimes.com/2023/06/28/hea…

“This technology is rapidly improving at a time health care needs help,” said Adam Landman It is easy to think of the worst case scenarios for medical AI but important to remember that it can help ease the pressures of an overburdened system. nytimes.com/2023/06/26/tec…

'75 of 117 Idaho OB-GYNs recently surveyed by the Idaho Coalition for Safe Reproductive Health Care said they were considering leaving the state. Of those, nearly 100% — 73 of 75 — cited Idaho’s restrictive abortion laws.' Those numbers speak for themselves via @kffhealthnews

Cannot agree more with Holly Fernandez Lynch. Awesome job alert indeed!

When there aren't legal and regulatory incentives to fix biased and problematic medical products--Christopher Robertson and the excellent BU law student Annabel Kupke explore pulse oximeters in JAMA jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/…

Physicians shouldn't bear all the liability of biased AI and that could happen if we aren't thoughtful about the application of Section 1557 to clinical algorithms Sara Gerke and I write in JAMA

I feel so lucky to work with the amazing Chloe Reichel. Such a testament to her that people were eager and willing to attend yet another zoom party to celebrate her 'Harvard birthday' (@JoelleGrogan)!

Honored to contribute some thoughts on the legal and regulatory considerations when it comes to clinicians' desire to use #AI tools in the newest #NAMPerspectives doi.org/10.31478/20220…

What if instead of thinking of it as just another medical device we regulated AI the way we regulate nurse practitioners? @morell_walker Tony Weiss and I explore this common sense idea in Journal of Law and the Biosciences academic.oup.com/jlb/article/9/…

I'll leave the labor analysis to my colleagues @LWPHarvard but this article really hammers home 1) the absurdity of not universally considering fertility treatments as health care and 2) of intertwining health care coverage and employment. thecut.com/2022/08/amazon…

So excited for what comes our way! I'm expecting to learn so much from editing this book project.

Came across this thread by a hospital attorney about the absurdity of having hospital lawyers and not physician determine when it is ok to provide necessary medical treatment (i.e. abortions). Medicine not law should take the lead here.