LAW 7780 - Health Care Regulation

Health Care Regulation is designed to provide an overview of the restrictions and obligations applied to medical practitioners. The course is a survey of a broad range of health law topics, and explores state and federal regulation of physicians, other health care professionals, hospitals, and medical insurers. The course addresses issues such as medical malpractice; confidentiality issues (such as the physician-patient privilege, HIPAA, and reporting obligations regarding infectious diseases, child abuse, elder abuse, and trauma); informed consent (including the ability of adolescent minors to consent to treatment, consent to emergency care, and consent in the setting of clinical research); public health; family planning and reproductive health; and the regulation of pharmaceuticals.