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  • Essentials of Informed Consent to Psychedelic Medicine

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    JAMA Psychiatry. 2024; 10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2024.0184

    This Special Communication discusses the essential elements of designing and implementing informed consent practices for psychedelic medicine.

  • Whose Responsibility Is It to Define Exceptions in Abortion Bans?

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    JAMA. 2024; 331(7):559-560. 10.1001/jama.2024.0001

    This Viewpoint evaluates Texas’ proposals to define the scope of the life exception for the state’s abortion ban and argues that these approaches do not allow physicians to follow the national standards of care, avoid criminal liability, or have sufficient notice of what the law permits.

  • Increasing Telehealth Access Through Licensure Exceptions

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    JAMA. 2023; 331(1):19-20. 10.1001/jama.2023.24960

    This Viewpoint explains how exceptions can be used to connect patients via telehealth with a physician in another state, why this is a more practical and effective strategy, and what needs to happen for this to be a feasible solution.

  • Providing Responsible Health Care for Out-of-State Patients

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    JAMA. 2023; 330(6):499-500. 10.1001/jama.2023.10411

    This Viewpoint discusses why the legality of calling patients located in another state has suddenly been called into question.

  • Pediatric Drug and Other Shortages in the Age of Supply Chain Disruption

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    JAMA. 2023; 329(24):2127-2128. 10.1001/jama.2023.4755

    This Viewpoint lists the top 3 pediatric drugs and product shortages, considers the federal government’s and manufacturers’ ethical duty to protect children, reviews the causes for the shortages, and suggests policy changes that could help fill in the gap.

  • Pulse Oximeters and Federal Antidiscrimination Law—Reply

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    JAMA. 2023; 329(21):1884-1885. 10.1001/jama.2023.6721
  • Abortion Miscoding—Legal Risks for Clinicians and Hospital Systems

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    JAMA. 2023; 329(22):1911-1912. 10.1001/jama.2023.6278

    This Viewpoint discusses the legal risks physicians and health care facilities may incur by miscoding a surgical or chemical abortion as a miscarriage to conceal an abortion procedure.

  • Pulse Oximeters and Violation of Federal Antidiscrimination Law

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    JAMA. 2023; 329(5):365-366. 10.1001/jama.2022.24976

    This Viewpoint discusses how some pulse oximeters can provide incorrect oxygen saturation data for dark-skinned patients compared with light-skinned patients, describes the reasons that biased oximeters remained in use, and highlights why a rule recently proposed by the US Department of Health and Human Services may bring about needed change in the use of pulse oximetry for patients with dark skin.

  • Prevention of Bias and Discrimination in Clinical Practice Algorithms

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    JAMA. 2023; 329(4):283-284. 10.1001/jama.2022.23867

    This Viewpoint discusses a proposed DHHS rule to address discrimination in clinical algorithms and the need for additional considerations to ensure the burden of liability for biased algorithms is not disproportionately placed on health care professionals.

  • Unsettled Liability Issues for “Prediagnostic” Wearables and Health-Related Products

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    JAMA. 2022; 328(14):1391-1392. 10.1001/jama.2022.16317

    This Viewpoint examines the murky legal treatment of various health-related wearable or other general wellness products for patients, physicians, and manufacturers, and recommends solutions.

  • HIPAA, Privacy, and Reproductive Rights in a Post- Roe Era

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    JAMA. 2022; 328(5):417-418. 10.1001/jama.2022.12510

    Viewpoint describes the limitations of patient privacy under HIPPA regarding abortion services and miscarriages and discusses important considerations for patients, clinicians, and health care centers.

  • At-home Diagnostics and Diagnostic Excellence: Devices vs General Wellness Products

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    JAMA. 2022; 327(6):523-524. 10.1001/jama.2022.0047

    This Viewpoint discusses the definitions of medical devices and low-risk general wellness products and examines the difficulties the difference between these types of products pose for regulation, consumer understanding, physician use and interpretation, privacy, reimbursement, and equity.

  • Modernizing Medical Licensure to Facilitate Telemedicine Delivery After the COVID-19 Pandemic

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    JAMA Health Forum. 2021; 2(5):e210405. 10.1001/jamahealthforum.2021.0405

    This Viewpoint advocates for the US federal government to take advantage of COVID-19 pandemic-inspired momentum to promote telehealth via regulatory leadership.

  • Reconsidering Health Care Fraud and Abuse Laws

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    JAMA. 2020; 324(17):1735-1736. 10.1001/jama.2020.19795
  • Implications for Telehealth in a Postpandemic Future: Regulatory and Privacy Issues

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    JAMA. 2020; 323(23):2375-2376. 10.1001/jama.2020.7943

    This Viewpoint describes changes in reimbursement standards, patient privacy (HIPAA) regulations, and licensing requirements that have occurred around provision of telehealth in the US in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and highlights opportunities to further standardize regulations and facilitate use of telehealth after the pandemic.