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Privacy Concerns Trump Security Concerns on Drone Use?
This is the second in a series on the potential for drones or Unmanned Arial Vehicles (UAVs) to have a major negative impact on the privacy and security of all citizens in the country. There is little evidence that the private or corporate use of Drones by in the U.S....
TJC Sentinel Event Statistics – is Katrina in there?
Sentinel Events Definition of a Sentinel Event according to The Joint Commission (TJC): “A sentinel event is an unexpected occurrence involving death or serious physical or psychological injury, or the risk thereof. Serious...
For Medication: Make it or Fake it is not Good Enough
This post is partially in response to an April editorial in JAMA, which begins with: “When Hippocrates advised physicians to never give a deadly drug, he assumed they would know for sure that the medicines they prescribed were safe. Today, criminals...
Is your Rabbit Properly Protected? Hare Raising Regulations
 According to a recent article published by the Washington Post, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has mandated that Rabbit owners must develop a disaster plan for their small mammals in the family Leporidae of the order Lagomorpha. Experts were...
Religion at the End of Life, Church vs. State Issue
Based on good responses and comments on LinkedIn and our site, we went back to our 2006 contributions to the Journal of Healthcare Risk Management, Monograph, Volume 26, Issue 2 to review those comments relative to the Religion and the end of Life. Although, there was...
Religion at the End of Life – Reflecting on DHHS HealthBeat (May 28, 2009)
The issue of “End of Life Decisions†and when and who makes those existential calls are and have been the subject of considerable controversy, and which I have watched over many years. In 2006, I was a participant in an American Society...
Are Hospital Trustees Given the Mushroom Treatment?
Few would question that the triple + one all-hazards threats are measurably greater than when the Homeland Security Presidential Directive 21 was released by the White House in 2007 (Public Health and Medical Preparedness). Evolving Infectious Diseases, More Frequent...
A Content Filtering Device Ate My Homework
Post 9/11, 2001 a group of seasoned (old) like-minded healthcare professionals met to discuss how we could make some meaningful contribution to the nation’s strategy for Homeland Security protection. Our first task centered on finding the answer to...
NEW BOSTON MASSACRE Part Three: Emergency Management at its Best
The perfect setting, perfect timing, perfect sizing, and perfect response. The City of Boston is and should be proud of its outstanding response to the dreaded “terrorist bombâ€. Nothing said here should take away any of the...
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