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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....
New Technology and Old Chemical and Biological Threats
We have a long history of writing and consulting on CBRNE and post-Katrina All Hazards threats in the healthcare environment. We are increasingly concerned about some of the new opportunities that open up as a result of emerging technology. When coupled with...
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...
Public Health: WHO, MERS, Umra and the Hajj – connecting the dots
There have been several recent articles concerning the potential of MERS corona-virus spreading globally from Saudi Arabia. Among the challenges confronting the World Health Organization (WHO) concerns mass religious gatherings that will bring approximately...
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...
The Terrorist Attack Which Brought Russia to its Knees
We have written for years about how vulnerable hospitals are as "soft targets" for Terrorists, and it remains true despite the fact that we in the US have yet to suffer from a coordinated assault on a healthcare facility. We have seen multiple attacks over time in...
H1N1 vs Bioterrorism
Readers: This post was originally published in the Washington Examiner, 10/22/2009. As with many issues that we cover, there has been little in the way of  progress. There is new concern for an old threat, Bioterrorism. Post 9/11, threat of non-state...
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...
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