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13th Door Haunted House - AuroraRead MoreGhosts and evil clowns may elicit outright screams, but the story behind Aurora's 13th Door Haunted House is equally bone-chilling in its own way. According to legend, local millionaire John Barrington was throwing his annual All Hallows' Eve ball at the Barrington Hotel when his nephew, Andrew, came to him for help. Andrew, a gambler with a streak of bad luck, had amassed some serious debts, and his life now depended upon financial aid from his wealthy uncle. Hoping to teach a hard lesson, Barrington refused his nephew's pleas for money and threw him out of the party. He could hardly have suspected the severe consequences that would follow. Driven to rage by his uncle's response, Andrew blocked the doors to the ballroom and set the hotel on fire. The lavishly dressed guests all perished—all, that is, except for one. The sole survivor of the party had managed to find one door that Andrew failed to block: the 13th door. Today, those who enter the infamous ballroom can still hear the screams of the souls trapped inside, and they may even come face-to-face with the ghost of Andrew Barrington himself. In order to escape, they'll have to find the 13th door while making it past the haunted hotel's countless horrors, which include a slew of zombie residents and a pile of unwashed bath towels.3184 S Parker RdAurora, CO US
TiltRead MoreTreat your family to a day that's jam-packed with thrills and excitement! Take them on a trip to Tilt in Aurora. No matter what you're hungry for, the menu at this park promises the perfect dish for you. No need to splurge on a baby sitter — tots will be right at home at this park. Parking is plentiful, so patrons can feel free to bring their vehicles.14200 East Alameda AvenueAurora, CO US
Nickel-A-PlayRead MoreDiscover a world of action-packed thrills and awesome attractions at Nickel-A-Play in Aurora. Sure you could eat at home, but you'll want to take advantage of this park's restaurant for high-class food. Bring the whole family to this park, where kiddos are welcomed with open arms. At Nickel-A-Play, you can easily find parking in the lot next door.15201 East Mississippi AvenueAurora, CO US
Platinum Play Family Fun CenterRead MoreIf you're itching to get outside, Aurora's Platinum Play Family Fun Center is a spot worth strolling through. Parking is plentiful, so visitors can feel free to bring their vehicles. Next time your kids or pets want to play outside, you'll definitely be heading to Platinum Play Family Fun Center's park.9395 Montview BlvdAurora, CO US
Elitch GardensRead MoreIt was 1890 when the first people arrived at Elitch Gardens, then a zoological park. Those early Denver citizens would likely be taken aback by the park's current collection of thrill rides—including one that looks like the world's largest hula hoop balanced on its side. The Brain Drain is no hula hoop, however. It's a ride towering seven stories high, with back-to-back seats that allow its riders to stare into each other's eyes as they go upside-down in high-speed revolutions. Elsewhere in the park, there are more adrenaline rushes to be had on the tracks of wooden and suspended roller coasters. Those who enjoy a slower pace would do well to visit the ferris wheel, children's rides, and an 83-year-old carousel whose horses don't even know what email is. There's also a water park with open and enclosed slides, some of which plunge from heights of up to 75 feet. In addition to the rides and water park, the park provides a variety of entertainment that is fun for all ages. The arcades and game stations, which include the classic ring toss and rope ladder climb, put players' skills and strategy to the test as they compete for prizes. During the summer months, guests enjoy a lineup of free concerts and family-friendly dive-in movies. The family fun doesn't stop there, as park-goers of all ages may also enjoy a multitude of dining and shopping options.2000 Elitch CirDenver, CO US
Lakeside Amusement ParkRead MoreEstablished in 1908, Lakeside Amusement Park maintains its turn-of-the-century charm while embracing modern amenities and attractions. An adrenaline-pumping drop tower and a slew of neon-hued, spinning rides contrast the classic joy of a wooden roller coaster, which rises from its perch near the lake. The all-ages park also comprises Kiddies' Playland, a place where tots can get their fun fix on boats, animal-themed rides, and pint-sized motorcycles. The facility also accommodates large groups with on-site picnic grounds perfect for birthday parties or applesauce fights.4601 Sheridan BoulevardDenver, CO US


text: Fall foliage is typically slow to change in eastern North Carolina. This year is no different but we are seeing some nice color changes in our deciduous trees. The slow change will continue to occur this weekend. Temperatures will drop to the upper 30s to lower 40 late Thursday night and into the lower to middle 30s early Saturday. There will likely be frost advisories posted for much of our area by Friday afternoon or evening. The combination of chilly nights and mild afternoons, coupled with shorter daylight, enhances the color change. The chill will ease over the weekend as temperatures warm to the middle 60s Saturday and lower 70s by Sunday afternoon. Overall, it should be a great weekend to watch the beautiful colors across the area.

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Safe Harbor Agreement Between United States and EU Ruled Invalid
Posted on October 6, 2015 in Data Management, Data Privacy and Security, EHRs, Health Information Technology, HIPAA, Records Retention
Written by: Alisa C. Kuehn
For years, companies in the United States have relied on a Safe Harbor to the EU Directives (the stringent privacy requirements imposed by the European Union) to qualify for the ability to transfer protected data between EU countries and the United States. Today, however, the European Court of Justice ruled that the agreement between the EU and the United States that created the Safe Harbor is invalid. In addition, the European Court of Justice indicated that each of the 28 countries comprising the EU may make their own determinations as to how companies collect and use information gathered on its citizens, thereby removing the uniformity among the EU nations with regard to data privacy…. Continue Reading →
Chip-Enabled Point of Sale Terminal – Deadline: October 1, 2015
Posted on September 1, 2015 in Health Information Technology
Written by: Hall Render
Hospitals and other health care providers may be liable for fraudulent use of credit cards at their facilities effective October 1, 2015 if they do not upgrade their credit card terminals. The major credit card issuers have been busy issuing to all cardholders new chip-enabled credit cards ("EMV Cards") to address the growing concern with data breaches and stolen credit card information. The EMV Card generates a unique, one-time code for each transaction. Effective October 1, 2015, there will be a new EMV Card standard for face-to-face or in-store payments. After October 1, liability for fraudulent use of a credit card will fall on the party that has not upgraded their systems (meaning the POS terminals that can process EMV Cards) if chip technology could have prevented the fraud. This standard is managed by EMV Co., a consortium between Europay, Visa, JCB, Discovery, Mastercard and China Union Pay. To avoid liability for fraudulent charges, now is the time to audit your hospital and clinic payment processing systems, inventory the POS systems and initiate deployment of chip-enabled terminals. If you have any questions, please contact Carol Romej at email@example.com or your regular Hall Render attorney.
CMS Releases Eligible Hospital Hardship Exception Application
Posted on March 9, 2015 in Health Information Technology, HITECH ACT, Meaningful Use
Written by: Ammon R. Fillmore
Recently, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services ("CMS") published additional guidance for Medicare eligible hospitals seeking to avoid the 2016 Medicare EHR Incentive Program payment adjustment.
Medicare eligible hospitals can avoid the 2016 payment adjustment by taking action by April 1 and applying for a 2016 hardship exception.
The hardship exception application and instructions for Medicare eligible hospitals are available on the EHR Incentive Programs website and outline the specific types of circumstances that CMS considers to be barriers to achieving meaningful use and how to apply.
To file a hardship exception, Medicare eligible hospitals must:
- Show proof of a circumstance beyond the eligible hospital's control; and
- Explicitly outline how the circumstance significantly impaired the eligible hospital's ability to meet meaningful use.
Supporting documentation must also be provided. CMS will review applications to determine whether or not a hardship exception should be granted.
As a reminder, the application must be submitted electronically or postmarked no later than 11:59 p.m. ET on April 1, 2015 to be considered.
If approved, the exception is valid for one year. If the eligible hospital claims a hardship exception for the following payment year, a new application must be submitted.
If you have questions regarding the hardship exception, please contact:
- Jeff Short at (317) 977-1413 or firstname.lastname@example.com;
- Ammon Fillmore at (317) 977-1492 or firstname.lastname@example.com; or
- Your regular Hall Render attorney.
FDA Finalizes Guidance on Medical Device Data Systems
Posted on February 10, 2015 in FDA, Health Information Technology, Mobile apps, Mobile Devices, Mobile Medical Apps
Written by: Dahlby, Mark R.
On February 6, the Food and Drug Administration (the "FDA" or "Agency") released a finalized guidance (the "Guidance") informing the public that the Agency does not intend to enforce any regulatory requirements applicable to several types of devices and software that transfer, store, convert, format and display medical data, specifically including medical image storage ("MIS") devices, medical image communications ("MIC") devices and medical device data systems ("MDDS"). The Guidance finalizes a draft guidance issued by the Agency in June of 2014, which in turn also finalizes related changes to a separate guidance on mobile medical applications. To read Hall Render's article assessing the draft Guidance, click here; or to read our article discussing the mobile medical applications guidance, click here.
The elimination of FDA regulatory requirements for these products could have significant positive impacts for developers and end users of these devices within the emergent areas of home health, personal health and telemedicine. The FDA's move is particularly designed to support initiatives driving interoperability among medical devices and various health IT systems, including electronic health records.
A few examples of MDDS products include:
- Software that collects output from a ventilator about a patient's CO2 level and transmits the information to a central patient data repository;
- Software that stores historical blood pressure information for later review by a health care provider;
- Software that converts digital data generated by a pulse oximeter into a digital format that can be printed;
- Software that displays a previously stored electrocardiogram for a particular patient; and
- A telemedicine cart that uses two-way audio/video technology to capture and transmit patient-specific data.
Although technically these products will remain regulated as medical devices, the FDA will exhibit "enforcement discretion," meaning the Agency will neither expect compliance nor enforce regulations for these products. However, because the Guidance is not binding and conveys no rights of any kind, the Agency may at any point reverse its thinking and begin enforcing the regulations, a situation that could arise if it appears any products in these classes are negatively impacting patient safety. For Hall Render's article on the safety of products with health IT components, click here.
Additionally, in order for a product to be eligible to take advantage of the Agency's enforcement discretion, the product must not modify medical device data, control any other connected medical devices or be used in connection with active patient monitoring. As an example of a device used to perform monitoring that does not rise to the level of "active patient monitoring," the Agency identified software that displays data from a blood glucose meter when the software simply provides viewing of that data and not when immediate clinical action is anticipated as a result. This distinction should give pause to software developers, whether from medical device companies, IT consultants or health care providers, who are developing programs to sync data from patient wearables and other home-use devices to electronic health records and provide alerts to clinicians if that data falls outside of desired norms, as the FDA may continue to actively regulate such programs. The FDA recently released a draft guidance discussing the approach it intends to take regarding "general wellness" devices. For Hall Render's article on the wellness devices draft guidance, click here.
On February 24, 2015, the FDA will hold a webinar to discuss the finalized MDDS Guidance and two new draft guidance documents applicable to general wellness devices and medical device accessories. More information about the webinar is available on the FDA's website.
Practical Takeaways
Because the FDA's action comes in the form of a guidance rather than a regulation, every potential developer of MDDS, MIC and MIS products will have to decide whether it is comfortable accepting the risk that the FDA could change its opinion at any time. Many software developers, particularly those looking to make data from wearable and home use devices more actionable to clinicians, may still find it difficult to take on that risk.
Both product developers and end users should also remain cognizant of the limited scope of the FDA's enforcement discretion, which does not extend to products that contain MDDS, MIC or MIS functions when they also contain other functions and intended uses that are regulated under separate FDA rules. The transfer, storage, conversion, formatting and display of medical data are common functions in medical devices and will be increasingly so if interoperability efforts are realized. Both developers and end users of such products should continue to diligently scope the full functionality and intended use of products in order to determine the full scope of regulatory requirements.
If you have any questions about the regulation of health IT or medical devices or would like additional information about this topic, please contact Mark R. Dahlby at (414) 721-0902 or email@example.com or your regular Hall Render attorney.
Please visit the Hall Render Blog at http://blogs.hallrender.com/ for more information on topics related to health care law.
New Guidance Documents from FDA Seek to Clarify Regulation for Wellness Devices and Medical Device Accessories
Posted on February 10, 2015 in FDA, Health Information Technology, Mobile apps, Mobile Devices, Mobile Medical Apps
Written by: Hall Render
On January 20, 2015, the Food and Drug Administration (the "FDA" or "Agency") published two draft guidance documents designed to fulfill promises it made in the multi-agency Food and Drug Administration Safety and Innovation Act ("FDASIA") Health IT report. The first draft guidance is intended to promote the innovation of general wellness devices and software applications by identifying certain types of low risk products for which the FDA will not enforce any regulatory requirements. The second draft guidance proposes to regulate medical device accessories based on the risks they present when used as intended, rather than the risks presented by the parent medical device with which the accessory is used.
The Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act authorizes the FDA to regulate as a medical device any instrument, machine, software or other type of product, including component parts and accessories, intended or promoted for use in the diagnosis of disease or other conditions; in the cure, mitigation, treatment or prevention of disease; or intended to affect the structure or any function of the body of man or other animals. Because the definition of a medical device is broad, it captures many types of health IT, arguably including many consumer-facing general wellness products like Apple iWatch, calorie-tracking software and FitBit.
Responding to pressure from industry over the past decade, the FDA has begun clarifying the regulatory environment applicable to many new types of medical software and related products. For example, in 2013, the FDA finalized a guidance on Mobile Medical Applications, in which the Agency wrote it would not enforce regulatory requirements on mobile software applications that pose a low risk to users, provided the products do not make disease-specific claims. In April 2014, the FDASIA Health IT report was issued, in which the FDA again agreed to refrain from actively regulating low risk health IT products and further promised to provide clarity on questions regarding when software may qualify as a regulated medical device accessory and on the regulation of clinical decision support software generally. For Hall Render's article discussing the Mobile Medical Apps Guidance and the FDASIA Health IT report, click here. The following June, the FDA proposed in another draft guidance document that medical device data systems ("MDDS"), which are devices used to transfer, store, convert, format and display data from other medical devices, should also be exempt from all regulatory requirements. On February 6, 2015, the FDA finalized that MDDS Guidance. To read Hall Render's article discussing the new MDDS Guidance, click here.
Wellness Devices
In the new draft guidance document entitled General Wellness: Policy for Low Risk Devices (the "draft Wellness Devices Guidance"), the FDA explains that it "does not intend to examine low risk general wellness products to determine whether they are [medical] devices . . . or whether they comply with the premarket review and post-market regulatory requirements for [medical] devices." The Agency describes general wellness products as having either: (1) an intended use that relates to maintaining or encouraging a general state of health or a healthy activity (i.e., no correlations to or marketing for specific disease states); or (2) an intended use that associates the role of healthy lifestyle with helping to reduce the risk or impact of certain chronic diseases or conditions and where it is well understood and accepted that healthy lifestyle choices may play an important role in health outcomes for the disease or condition.
According to the Agency, products in the first category include exercise equipment, audio recordings, video games and generally many software programs and devices commonly obtained from retail establishments. Examples of physical conditions for which they may be promoted to assist include weight management, physical fitness, stress management, mental acuity, self-esteem, sleep management and sexual function. Products will fit the second category of general wellness devices only if claims that healthy lifestyle choices may reduce the risk or impact of a chronic disease or medical condition are well understood. According to the FDA, examples of chronic diseases for which a healthy lifestyle is associated with risk reduction or help in living well with that disease include high blood pressure, heart disease and type 2 diabetes. Although "well understood" is not defined, the FDA writes that an acceptable association between disease state and lifestyle would typically be found in peer-reviewed scientific publications. Based on the Federal Trade Commission's interpretation of the Federal Trade Commission Act, it is likely that at least one well-controlled clinical investigation is required in order to make such claims.
Regardless of the category, the product must also present "a very low risk to users' safety," meaning that it may not be invasive (e.g., penetrate or pierce the skin), pose a risk to a user's health (e.g., exposure to lasers or radiation) or raise biocompatibility questions. The FDA also wrote that a product will not be deemed "low risk" if it "raises novel questions about usability," although the Agency did not provide examples of "novel questions."
Accessories to Medical Devices
In the other draft guidance document, entitled Medical Device Accessories: Defining Accessories and Classification Pathway for New Accessory Types (the "draft Accessories Guidance"), the FDA attempts for the first time to clarify what the Agency deems to be "accessories" to medical devices. FDA proposes that an "accessory" is an item intended to support, supplement, and/or augment the performance of one or more medical devices. An example of an accessory could be a smartphone app that is a companion to a medical device.
The Agency further proposes to regulate medical device accessories based on the risks they present when used as intended with their parent devices and not based on the risks of the parent devices. Often the risk of the parent device may be higher than that of the accessory. As an example, the Agency states that "if a parent device warrants regulation as a Class II device but an accessory to the parent device presents lower risks, we would regulate the accessory as a Class I rather than a Class II device." This proposal would be a substantial departure from the Agency's current thinking, which has historically been that the risks of the parent device are automatically assigned to its accessories.
Unlike in both the Mobile Medical App Guidance and the draft Wellness Devices Guidance, the FDA did not provide examples of accessories that would or would not be regulated as medical devices. Rather, the Agency encourages manufacturers of accessories to use FDA's "de novo" classification process to request that the Agency perform a risk-based review of accessory types that are not currently classified. As such, the draft Accessories Guidance provides little actual guidance to developers or users of medical device accessories. Other issues that the FDA did not address as requested by industry stakeholders include:
- Provide assurance that interoperability claims will not automatically characterize a product as a medical device accessory;
- Describe how FDA will differentiate between accessories and non-regulated components of a system; and
- Provide guidance on how the agency intends to regulate claims associated with accessories.
Practical Takeaways Although both draft guidance documents indicate that the FDA remains generally committed to allowing many low risk health care-related products to be developed without active oversight by the Agency, substantial questions remain. For example, clarity is needed on what may trigger "novel questions about usability" such that a wellness device may become subject to higher scrutiny. Additionally, as clinical decision support tools become more prevalent in both the home and hospital environments, the limited exemption from FDA oversight for wellness devices may soon be outdated. Uncertainty as to regulatory status may also cause confusion as to what rules must be followed (e.g., payment of medical device tax, unique device identification) for not only product developers but also health care providers, which have separate obligations (e.g., adverse event reporting, meeting standards of The Joint Commission) of their own.
The Agency is seeking comments from the public on both proposed guidance documents until April 20, 2015.
If you have any questions about the FDA's regulation of medical devices or the regulation of health IT generally or are interested in submitting comments to the FDA, please contact Mark R. Dahlby at (414) 721-0902 or firstname.lastname@example.com or your regular Hall Render attorney.
Please visit the Hall Render Blog at http://blogs.hallrender.com/ for more information on topics related to health care law.
Report Details Safety Issues with Health IT
Posted on February 9, 2015 in Health Information Technology, Mobile apps, Mobile Devices, Mobile Medical Apps, Patient Safety
Written by: Dahlby, Mark R.
In November 2014, the ECRI Institute¹ issued a report discussing issues of patient safety and adverse events linked to health information technology ("IT") products. The report comes in the form of an annual list of top ten health technology safety hazards.
According to the ECRI Institute, although many facets of health IT have a positive impact on patient outcomes, such as automated reminders that improve medication adherence, technologies can also have an adverse effect on patient safety. The top 10 list addresses all health technologies and not just health IT. However, the ECRI Institute pointed out that health IT is a prominent component in many of the technologies that are experiencing safety issues. The health IT-related technologies making the list in ranked order are:
#1. Alarm hazards, including inadequate alarm configuration policies and practices (e.g., failure to reset medical device to default alarm limits when a new patient is connected);
#2. Data integrity, including incorrect or missing data in electronic health records and other health IT systems (e.g., appearance of one patient's data in another patient's record because the clinician entering data has two health records simultaneously open and misdirects the entry);
#5. Ventilator disconnections not caught because of mis-set or missed alarms (e.g., alarm volume is too low relative to competing ambient noise);
#7. Unnoticed variations in diagnostic radiation exposures (e.g., "dose creep" where radiographic technologists may increase the exposure parameters to get a better quality image notwithstanding the dose is higher than industry-recommended exposure levels);
#8. Robotic surgery complications from insufficient training (e.g., surgeons located at a control console several feet away from the patient must be able to proficiently manipulate hand and foot controls to position and operate robotic arms while viewing real-time 3D video of the surgical site);
#9. Cybersecurity, including insufficient protections for medical devices and IT systems (e.g., devices that became infected with malware caused a hospital to have to temporarily shut down its catheterization lab); and
#10. Overwhelmed recall and safety alert management programs where due to the significant increase in volume of "safety alerts," the hospital may not be keeping up with identification/remediation of affected devices.
As the purpose of the report is to help hospitals recognize and prioritize patient safety issues, it also includes detailed recommendations for how hospitals can mitigate safety issues. In creating its report, the ECRI Institute drew from its experience providing services to health care providers, specifically including health technology-related problem reports received through its Problem Reporting Network and its patient safety organization ("PSO"). The ECRI Institute PSO's website contains additional details about its experience with health IT safety matters.
In November 2014, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology ("ONC") coordinated with the ECRI Institute PSO and United Healthcare's ("UHC's") PSO to publish a report entitled, Health Information Technology Adverse Event Reporting: Analysis of Two Databases. The report studied the role of health IT in hundreds of thousands of reported adverse events in order to identify the most common incidences implicating health IT. Although the analysis determined that incidents involving health IT were overall less likely to result in harm when compared to those events that were not health IT-related, significant issues were identified, including the following:
- The most common contributing factors to health IT-related events were communication among staff and team members (40-42%), staff inattention (33-34%), accuracy of the data (21-23%) and availability of data (10-12%).
- Medication-related events were the most common health IT-related event type, accounting for about one-third of these events.
- More than half of the health IT-related events were categorized in the Common Formats "other" report category making it difficult to determine the clinical problem involved in these events from these data.
- About 60% of the events involving health IT were categorized as an incident (i.e., they reached a patient although they may not have resulted in harm to the patient), 14% as near miss event and 26% as an unsafe condition.
- The UHC data showed that clinical documentation systems, computerized provider order entry and laboratory information systems are among the types of IT most commonly involved in adverse events. Health IT-related issues were common in the interfaces among different software components that make up health IT systems.
The ONC is the agency tasked with implementing a plan issued in 2013 by the Department of Health and Human Services to address the role of health IT in ensuring patient safety. The ONC is working with The Joint Commission to implement the plan, which is entitled the Health IT Patient Safety Action and Surveillance Plan and is built on recommendations from the 2011 Institute of Medicine report entitled Health IT and Patient Safety: Building Safer Systems for Better Care.
It was also proposed in the Food and Drug Administration Safety and Innovation Act ("FDASIA") Health IT report from 2014 that ONC should run a Health IT Safety Center in collaboration with the FDA, the FCC and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, along with other federal agencies and private stakeholders. The center, for which funding is proposed in the White House's Fiscal Year 2016 budget, would initially focus on data collection and analysis of health IT-related adverse events, including those tied to the use of electronic health records. Thereafter, it is intended that the center would assist in identifying and implementing a framework for oversight of medium-risk health IT products. (To read Hall Render's article on the multi-agency FDASIA health IT report, click here.)
If you have any questions about patient safety issues related to health IT or matters pertaining to the regulation of health IT or medical devices, please contact:
- Mark R. Dahlby at (414) 721-0902 or firstname.lastname@example.com;
- Adele Merenstein at (317) 752-4427 or firstname.lastname@example.com; or
- Your regular Hall Render attorney.
Please visit the Hall Render Blog at http://blogs.hallrender.com/ for more information on topics related to health care law.
¹ ECRI Institute is a 45-year old nonprofit organization that does research to determine which medical procedures, devices, drugs and processes are best in order to improve patient care. It claims more than 5,000 members and clients including hospitals, health systems, public and private payers, federal and state government agencies, accrediting agencies.
Anthem Data Breach: What You Need to Know Now
Posted on February 6, 2015 in Data Privacy and Security, Health Information Technology, HIPAA
Written by: Swearingen, Mark
Health care data breaches are not new. The breach announced by health insurer Anthem on February 5, 2015 is notable mostly for its scope. According to Anthem's statement, hackers utilized a very sophisticated cyber attack to gain access to the information of potentially 80 million current and former Anthem members. The information accessed included names, birthdays, medical IDs, Social Security numbers, addresses, email addresses, employment information and income data of current and former members, including Anthem employees. At the time of Anthem's statement, there was no evidence that credit card or medical information, such as claims, test results or diagnostic codes, were targeted or compromised. The breach appears to be the largest cyber attack ever disclosed by a health care company.
Data breaches are complex and often are confusing for potentially affected individuals. As with any major event, there will be information published that is accurate and some that is inaccurate. It is important for all involved to operate based on accurate information. To aid in that effort, we offer the following information:
- It is widely accepted and reported that medical information is 10 to 20 times more valuable on the black market than credit card numbers. This makes health care organizations attractive targets for criminals seeking to profit from such information. Most health care organizations make reasonable efforts to prevent unauthorized access to identifiable information, but staying ahead of the hackers has proven to be a complicated task.
- Anthem is subject to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 ("HIPAA"); therefore, to the extent the identifiable information accessed by the hackers was provided to Anthem in its role as a health plan or as a third-party administrator of a health plan, it has obligations under HIPAA with respect to that information. HIPAA requires that written notice of a breach be provided to each affected individual and to the federal government. Because the breach involves more than 500 individuals, it will be subject to a mandatory investigation by the federal government. If the government investigation finds that Anthem did not have reasonable and appropriate safeguards in place or otherwise violated HIPAA, it may impose a civil monetary penalty.
- Many states have data breach laws that may also apply to Anthem based on where the affected individuals reside. The requirements of those state laws generally are similar to HIPAA but may require notification on a shorter time frame and to the state's Attorney General or other agency. States where affected individuals reside are also likely to investigate the breach and may impose a financial penalty if it is found that Anthem did not have reasonable procedures in place to protect and safeguard the information.
- Individuals do not have the ability to sue for violations of HIPAA or most state data breach laws, but there have been several cases recently where individuals have sued health care organizations under common law theories of liability such as invasion of privacy or breach of fiduciary duty. In a breach the size of the Anthem breach, class action lawsuits based on one of these theories are likely to occur. In fact, it is our understanding that one was filed in Indiana on the same day that Anthem announced the breach.
- It is likely that the majority of individuals affected will not experience any identity theft or other adverse effects from the Anthem breach. In addition, if an individual does experience identity theft subsequent to this breach, it may be difficult in many cases to identify which breach was the source for the information that led to the identity theft given the number of large breaches recently in the retail sector and the various other means that criminals have to access information. This could also hinder individuals from establishing the damages needed for a successful lawsuit.
- Entities that suffer data breaches, including Anthem, typically offer to pay for credit monitoring services for all affected individuals, which can be an effective component of monitoring for unauthorized activity. The most effective action that any individual can take is to always be vigilant in monitoring activity on financial accounts and to notify your financial institutions immediately of any suspicious activities. Furthermore, whenever a breach involves a health care institution, individuals should closely monitor their Explanation of Benefit forms and any communications or information from their health care providers and insurers that may indicate that medical identity theft has occurred and report any suspicious activity to their health care provider or insurer.
Anthem has established a website, www.anthemfacts.com, to provide information about the breach. As well, current and former members can call (877) 263-7995 for additional information.
If you have questions regarding the data breaches or information security, please contact:
- Mark Swearingen at (317) 977-1458 or email@example.com;
- Jeff Short at (317) 977-1413 or email@example.com; or
- Your regular Hall Render attorney.
Massachusetts Requires EHR Proficiency for Physician Licensure
Posted on January 7, 2015 in EHRs, Health Information Technology, HITECH ACT, Meaningful Use
Written by: Ammon R. Fillmore
In December of 2014, Massachusetts finalized a state law that requires physicians to demonstrate proficiency in using EHRs and/or being a "meaningful user" under the Department of Health and Human Services' Meaningful Use Electronic Health Record Incentive Program ("Meaningful Use Program") as a condition of licensure.
Massachusetts' changes to the license requirements are another indication of how the Meaningful Use Program is shifting from an incentive program to a long-term compliance program. Health care providers, including those outside of Massachusetts, should weigh the importance of a compliance initiative for the Meaningful Use Program and have a firm understanding of how the Meaningful Use Program will affect clinical operations.
If you have questions regarding the Meaningful Use Program, please contact:
- Jeff Short at (317) 977-1413 or firstname.lastname@example.com;
- Ammon Fillmore at (317) 977-1492 or firstname.lastname@example.com; or
- Your regular Hall Render attorney.
Proposed New Regulations for Meaningful Use Stage 3 and 2015 Editions Base EHR Definition
Posted on January 7, 2015 in EHRs, Health Information Technology, Meaningful Use
Written by: Ammon R. Fillmore
Two proposed regulations under the Medicare & Medicaid EHR Incentive Program ("MU Program") were submitted to the Office of Management and Budget ("OMB") on December 31, 2014. The two related proposed regulations relate to Stage 3 and the submission to OMB represents the first step toward the proposed regulations being published and available for review by the public. Given the filing and typical processes, it is anticipated that the regulations will be published sometime in February.
The first of the two proposed regulations were submitted by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and represent the criteria for Stage 3 of the MU Program. The OMB website provides the following statement with respect to the proposed regulations, "Stage 3 will also propose changes to the reporting period, timelines, and structure of the program, including providing a single definition of meaningful use. These changes will provide a flexible, yet, clearer framework to ensure future sustainability of the EHR program and reduce confusion stemming from multiple stage requirements." The statement of changes to reporting periods and providing a single definition of meaningful use are interesting and could mean many things, but changes that simplify the process would certainly be welcomed by hospitals and providers.
The second of the two proposed regulations were submitted by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT ("ONC") and propose a new 2015 Edition Base Electronic Health Record definition ("2015 EHR") and changes to the ONC certification program. While details are still forthcoming, the changes will focus on making "it more broadly applicable to other types of health IT health care settings and programs." The 2015 Edition also establishes the technical capabilities and detail the related standards and implementation specifications that Certified Electronic Health Record Technology would need to include to support the achievement of meaningful use by eligible professionals, eligible hospitals and critical access hospitals under the MU Program.
Typically, no further information about the proposed regulations will be made available until they are released by OMB and published in the Federal Register.
If you have questions regarding meaningful use, please contact:
- Jeff Short at (317) 977-1413 or email@example.com;
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Burns Hargis, Oklahoma State University, will remain on Chesapeake's board until the audit committee, which he leads, completes its review of CEO Aubrey McClendon's financing arrangements with third parties that have relationships with Chesapeake.
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• Kathleen Eisbrenner, 51, founder and CEO of Next Decade, a company working to create new opportunities in the international liquefied natural gas industry. She has almost 30 years of experience in the industry. Eisbrenner joined Chesapeake's board in December 2010.
• Frank Keating, 68, who served two terms as governor of Oklahoma. He also was an FBI agent, prosecutor, state representative and state senator. Keating now serves as president and CEO of the American Bankers Association, a trade association based in Washington, D.C. He had been a Chesapeake director since 2003.
• Charles T. Maxwell, 80, senior energy analyst at Connecticut-based investment firm Weeden & Co. He stepped down from Chesapeake's board after reaching mandatory retirement age. Maxwell had been a director since 2002.
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California Natural Resources Secretary John Laird called Jackson the right leader for the right time. Laird noted Jackson's experience protecting cultural resources on sensitive government land, directing environmental scientists and integrating military and civilian personnel.
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Yesterday my little family and I went to some local antique stores. We were on the hunt for a dresser for our daughter's room and a bookshelf (preferably a boat shelf) for the living room. She will be three next month, and she still had a dresser/changing table in her room. That thing annoyed me because we purchased it from Wal-Mart (so it's not real wood), and the bottoms of the drawers kept coming apart. In order to open the middle drawer, we have to open the bottom drawer, and they both slide out together. I am holding on to this dresser/changing table to use in our son's nursery, but once he's too old for the changing table, he'll get a new dresser as well. Anyhoo, I was happy when we found this sturdy, white dresser, but I was unsure about the veneer popping off the side. The store owner suggested that I just pop it off and paint over it, so that's what I did.
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Clyde Fitch (William Clyde Fitch), 1865–1909, American dramatist, b. Elmira, N.Y. An extremely prolific and versatile playwright, he wrote over 36 original plays, including melodramas, farces, social comedies, and historical dramas. Much of his best work reflects American social life of the period. Among his most notable plays are Nathan Hale (1898), The Climbers (1901), The Girl with the Green Eyes (1902), The Truth (1907), and The City (1909). His works were popular both in the United States and in Europe.


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It feels like there have been a lot of delays over the past several months. Add one more to that growing list, as Naughty Dog today confirmed that The Last of Us will see a six week delay, now scheduled to release worldwide on June 14th.
Naughty Dog explained their reason for the delay on the PlayStation Blog:
As we entered the final phase of development for The Last of Us, we came to realize just how massive Joel and Ellie's journey is. But instead of cutting corners or compromising our vision, we came to the tough decision that the game deserved a few extra weeks to ensure every detail of The Last of Us was up to Naughty Dog's internal high standards.
As a team we pride ourselves on setting a very high quality bar for every aspect of our games – gameplay, story, art, design, technology and more. We want to make sure The Last of Us raises that bar even further – for ourselves, and most importantly, for you, our fans.
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How To Print Datalist Each Item In Different PageMar 29, 2011
I have to make report and print. how to print datalist each item in different page.View 3 Replies
I have to make report and print. how to print datalist each item in different page.View 3 Replies
how to print page along with grid view item list. Though I have sample code as mention below for web page printing, I have another queries.
My page contained
Upper Part of the page
1.Page Header
2.Report Date
Body part of the page contained
3.Data from database in gridview
Lower part of the page contained
I want to print from .aspx page.
Print only ListBox Selected Item not ListBox Control while print.View 5 Replies
I have a datalist control which is filtered through a query string select parameter for a single product each time
This is on a details page What i want is to dynamically set the page's title according to the selected product's name Something like..... Page Title="<%# Eval("Title") %>"..... but that of cource won't work
I'm using C# for my code behind
I have a rather large datalist on which I have implemented an editing capability. When I click on my edit link, everything works as expected except that when I bind my data focus returns to to the top of the screen, so my user will have to scroll all the way back down to the item he wants to edit. Is there a way to keep the page centered on the item in question through the databind?View 2 Replies
i am using c#.netimagine if i have a listbox with student names. After Admin multi-selected the required students, i use datalist to populate all the students names.Each student name come tgt with 5 combobox for subjects. Admin will then choose the subjects neccessary for each of the student.Question: How do i EDIT the datalist. imagine i have filled all the subjects for 20 students, i would like to delete
ONE of the student before save. How do i do this ?? I can manage to delete the student in the listbox and populate the new datalist which have only 19 students.. however, all the subject which i had key in before save had GONE. !!so i was thinking how to delete one of the item in the datalist while remaning the rest
how to get the selected item in datalist? For eg, I'm displaying a list of food items in a datalist with food name, price, type, a button(Click to order). Now I wanted to click on the selected button and get that specific food name, price & etc from the datalist.View 1 Replies
i want to convert this code to javascript code,View 3 Replies
I had Datalist and I want to give item style when I click on it to show user the he select this item I did my code but when I selected item It didnot have any style
protected void DataList3_ItemDataBound(object sender, DataListItemEventArgs e)
if (e.Item.ItemType == ListItemType.Item || e.Item.ItemType == ListItemType.AlternatingItem)
e.Item.Attributes["onmouseover"] = "this.style.cursor='hand';this.style.textDecoration='underline';";
e.Item.Attributes["onmouseout"] = "this.style.textDecoration='none';";
e.Item.Attributes["onclick"] = ClientScript.GetPostBackClientHyperlink(this.DataList3, "Select$" + e.Item.ItemIndex);
Here's my .aspx code.
"Databinding methods such as Eval(), XPath(), and Bind() can only be used in the context of a databound control."
I'm more of a php guy, so this is a little over my head..
I want to set my DataList control to have only 7 items visible in each column after DataBind.Let's say' if I have 18 items in the data source; DataList should be rendered as 3 colums.
1st column will have first 7 items.
2nd column will have items from 8 to 15
3rd column will have items from 16 to 18
How can I set the item count per column for each itemTemplate?
I have the following DataList control:
When I click on the LinkButton, I want to insert the current item in the DataList into the database via LINQ to SQL in C# code behind. In the codeb behind, how do I retrieve that particular item so I can insert it into the database?
I'm creating a forum and the forum posts are items in a datalist.
Now I want to include the nifty feature that when one has replied to a message and the forum thread page is being displayed, the page is autmatically scrolled down to the message one wrote (the same thing goes for linking to a message, one wants the page to be scrolled down to the right place from the start).
I guess this could be done using anchors an html, but is there a function i vb.net that would do this for me?
I'm trying to do something what I thought was simple: Attach a local click event to a DataList item. Yet I can't get it to work.
To make things simplest for everyone to understand I've created this sample little project.
I have a datalist, and on the ItemTemplate, I do this for example:
<%#Eval ("MinAge") %>
Where MinAge is a Int. I also have a MaxAge that is also an int.
Quesiton is, how do i change it so that i could do something like:
if (MaxAge == 99)
MinAge + "+"
MinAge + "-" + MaxAge
so that if we have minage=18,maxage=99 it will be 18+ if we have minage=18,maxage=20 it will be 18 - 20
the thing is it gets complicated for me because i try to change int to string, so what is the proper way of doing it?
can i control some item to display horizontally ,some item are disaplayed vertically in datalist or repeater.View 6 Replies
my data is in dataset is like this:
firstname lastname middlename
xyz xyz1 xyz2
Pqr pqr1 pqr2
i want to it display like this format in datalist
firstname xyz Pqr
lastname xyz1 pqr1
middlename xyz2 pqr2
i am not able to set this table formate in item template of datalist.
i'm trying to get a datalist item to string, but i keep getting this error??
Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
i have 3 items in my dataliste but the
Label46.Text = DataList2.Items.Count gives me 2.
I'm trying to figure out how can I control my linkbutton which nests inside my DataItem in the ItemTemplate.What I wish to do is to check something in the server side and according to that, decide whether I wish to alter its visibility to "true" or to keep it hidden. I think that the method which is going to solve it is the ItemCreated, although, I don't happen to know how to control that specific item of mine.
Here is my DataList control:
here's my issue:I want to delete an item from a datalist and i cant seem to get it working. I am using the delete code from a sqldatasource which is..
I have searched on the web for code for this, but all i can find is code to delete the primary key from from a table. My issues is that i have a double primary key.The way that it works is, i insert a load of data, but which uses number1 as the first primary key, and number 2 is like an item of number1 as such.Sorry about the explanation, if you dont understand i'd happily try and explain it better.
I have a DataList containing a list of elements(ASP.Net app). To delete an item i first used tha classic javascript confirmation. As i found it ugly,i want to use a confirmation box plugin. when i click OK==>Delete the item from DB(using a webservice) But how can i update the DataList. The situation is liek: when u add a comment in Facebook. delete link==>Conf box==>Delete==>Comments List update.View 1 Replies
How do you add an item to a Datalist programmatically in vb.net?
I have a Datalist which I am data bind to a database in the page load event, but if the data bind returns zero records I want to programmatically add a single item to the Datalist which says something like "No data returned".
I'm trying to add a DataList to a panel and add a chart to the DataList.
I have a data list , each row consist only from button , i want to retrive data from data base depending on the item, I mean each button or row have different tooltip , it is possible to do this ?
if the button is enable=false also it is possible ?
I have created one web page in asp.net in which i have used datalist in the datalist there is one dropdownlist and one linkbutton. i have to find dropdown selected value on link buutons click events.
i tried a lot of code but i din't get i used fincontrol method. but not geeting how to get this.
i don't know english very well sorry about that and my question isi have datalist in my web page like this
<div style="height: 550px;">
i'm displaying a user's images to them in a datalist, with titles and descriptions in textboxes so that the user can edit them all in one page and click a single button to make the changes, here's a screenshot to visualize the point:
the datalist pulls the current values for title, caption and image name from the DB, assigning those values to the text's the button is outside of the datalist, here's its button click event:
protected void Button4_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
TextBox txt; TextBox txt2; Label txt3;
foreach (DataListItem item in DataList12.Items)
txt = (TextBox)item.FindControl("TextBox7");
txt2 = (TextBox)item.FindControl("TextBox8");
txt3 = (Label)item.FindControl("Label10");
the whole thing goes through without errors, but what's happening is that it's just passing the text values initially databound on pageload, so if it said "screenshot001" and you changed it to "tom", the sql command would still look like "SET title = 'screenshot001'" instead of having the updated "tom" value. so basically the button is just updating the records to be exactly how they already are.
I am trying to desplay list of numbers using DataList. i would like to to use 2 deferent css classes for the datalist.
when the item in the datalist is loaded you use for example css="pager".
when there is an item that selected the css for this item will be css="pagerSelected".
here code example:
on code behind i use:
i am looking for a way to tell the DataList to use deferent CSS style when the item is selected.
i have tryed to use the line: DataListProductsNumber.SelectedItemStyle.CssClass = "PagerSelect";
but nothing happen, the css is not selected.
I have the following line to display a piece of data and I want to know how I can format the output.
Text='<%# Eval("DOH") %>'
The data list displays the correct data, but I want to format it. The output I want is just a small date format instead of date and time. I have tried every combination of a format function I can think of, but can't seem to make it work. Am I stuck with the raw format provided by the database? I wouldn't think so, but maybe that is the case.
expected output should be 02/15/2011 instead of 02/15/2011 09:45:


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Rothman and Winter Orchard Apricot Brandy Review
In honor of Repeal Day, which was yesterday, we are highlighting an old-timey spirit recently brought back to life in America. Back in the days before Prohibition and immediately after, a significant number of drinks were made with Apricot Brandy. Like many ingredients in well fashioned cocktails, Apricot Brandy fell by the wayside as it fell out of flavor.
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At Portland Cocktail Week, we attended a very informative seminar on how to drink healthier. You might ask, is that really possible? We think that it is. As part of the seminar, we reviewed a number of popular hangover cures to see if they were purely a myth or if there was some substance behind them. We thought that we would bring the most popular ones to you. Here you go, hangover cures – fact … Read more
Chivas Regal 12 Year Old Scotch Whisky Review
The Chivas Brothers started as grocers in Aberdeen Scotland, then became purveyors of fine food stuffs and liquor, including rum, and starting in 1843, were given a Royal Warrant to supply Queen Victoria on her trips to Scotland. In the 1850's, one of the famed Chivas brothers turned his attention to Scotch and developed a blended Scotch Whisky where softer grain Whiskys were blended with the aromatic but often harsher Single Malt Whiskys. Viola, a … Read more
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With much fanfare, Wine Spectator announced their top 100 wines of 2011. Not surprisingly, the list was dominated by American, Italian and French selections, as well as representations from a number of other countries, such as Spain, South Africa and Australia. The majority of wines were in the $50 to $100 range with the top price topping out at $175 and the lowest at $9.


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Cash Continues To Surge Into Mutual Funds
Posted: 03/12/2013 - The newfound confidence that investors showed at the start of the year held up through February.
Posted: 03/12/2013 - The newfound confidence that investors showed at the start of the year held up through February.
Updated: 03/12/2013 - A Senate Committee has approved a Democratic bill that would expand required federal background checks for nearly all gun purchasers.
Updated: 03/11/2013 - The so-called 'smoke watch' begins Tuesday night.
Updated: 03/11/2013 - Today marks the two-year anniversary of the devastating earthquake and tsunami that killed nearly 20,000 people in Japan.
Posted: 03/11/2013 - An earthquake has shaken a wide swath of Southern California but there's no word of any damage.
Updated: 03/11/2013 - KKTV 11 News took home several awards at this year's Colorado Broadcaster's Association Awards Banquet, held on Saturday, March 9, including Station of the Year for a non-metro market.
Posted: 03/09/2013 - A dump-truck driver accused of hitting and killing a bicyclist near Boulder has been convicted of careless driving resulting in death.
Posted: 03/09/2013 - Cardinals have set Tuesday as the start date for the conclave to elect the next pope, a milestone in this unusual papal transition and an indication that even without an obvious front-runner, the cardinals have a fairly good idea of who best among them can lead the Catholic Church and tackle its many problems.
Posted: 03/08/2013 - Officials say more than three dozen Pennsylvania college students visiting Kentucky for a mission trip are all safe after becoming lost when a sightseeing mountain hike unexpectedly stretched into the night.
Posted: 03/07/2013 - Free paint, free dinosaurs, and free fun are yours for the taking in this edition of "Here's The Deal!"
Posted: 03/06/2013 - Courts throw Egypt's political crisis into deeper confusion with decision to suspend elections.
Updated: 03/07/2013 - A Stuttgart museum has returned a 600-year-old painting to the estate of Jewish art dealer Max Stern, who was forced to sell his collection before fleeing Nazi Germany.
Posted: 03/05/2013 - There will be no dogs allowed in the next phase of a neighborhood in Aspen.
Posted: 03/04/2013 - Police say a dog searching for a gun in a snowbank accidentally pulled the trigger with its paw, firing the weapon.
Updated: 03/04/2013 - Queen Elizabeth II has left the the hospital Monday afternoon after a one-day stay caused by a stomach ailment.
Updated: 03/04/2013 - Casey Anthony will be coming out of seclusion for a meeting with the creditors in her bankruptcy case in Tampa.
Posted: 03/03/2013 - North Korea's young leader has riled the U.S. with recent nuclear tests, but Kim Jong Un doesn't really want war with the superpower, just a call from President Barack Obama to chat about their shared love of basketball, according to erstwhile diplomat Dennis Rodman, the ex-NBA star just back from an improbable visit to the reclusive communist country.
Posted: 03/03/2013 - The Army is rolling out a new training system that integrates live, virtual and computer-generated scenarios in order to allow troops to train without the expense of using real tanks and aircraft.
Posted: 02/27/2013 - A tweet sent Monday from North Korea is believed to be the first tweet sent from a cellphone using the country's new 3G mobile data service.
Posted: 02/27/2013 - A Maine judge says she's not going to let prosecutors introduce almost 600 sexually explicit images at the trial of a man charged with helping a fitness instructor run a prostitution business from her Zumba studio.
Updated: 02/25/2013 - A New York City police officer accused of plotting to cook and eat women is going on trial.
Posted: 02/25/2013 - Marijuana classes are popping up in Colorado as people seek help growing their own pot.
Posted: 02/23/2013 - Aspen police responded to about 1,040 calls about problem bears last year, up from 82 calls in 2008.
Posted: 02/22/2013 - A northeastern Pennsylvania TV station is refusing to run a commercial for the real-life Dunder Mifflin paper brand.
Posted: 02/21/2013 - Critics say the power wheelchair industry is putting seniors in costly equipment they don't need, and ripping off the government for what may be hundreds of millions of dollars a year.


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DescriptionSouth FIRST FRIDAYS presents the 8th Annual SubZERO Festival! Focused on emerging and present subcultures thriving in our region, SubZERO is a DIY, artistically bent, hi/lo-techno mashup where street meets geek. Come downtown on June 5th & 6th to San Jose's SoFA District from 6pm 'til midnight for an inspired evening of arts & culture. In addition to the South FIRST FRIDAYS monthly art walk you'll find 100+ artists, performers & musicians celebrating the indie creative spirit!
SubZERO Festival is free & open to the public with options to help support a subculture economy. You can purchase a festival pass which includes our special edition t-shirt designed by sign-painter Ken Davis, beer garden enrtry/wristband & discounted drink tickets (21+), and no cover entry to participating SoFA bars/clubs.
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Trumbull County Sheriff Thomas Altiere says he is seeking what would be his sixth and final term as sheriff.
He also may be facing one of his most serious challenges, which is coming from a long-time employee in his department, James Phillips, who retired two years ago as a major.
During an endorsement interview with Vindicator editors, Phillips, 60, said operation of the sheriff's department has declined under Altiere's leadership and that manpower is not being utilized efficiently.
The department has become reactive, rather than proactive, Phillips said and morale is low.
But some of the numbers Phillips cited didn't compute and Altiere told a different story. If morale is low, he said, it is because budget restraints have kept deputies from getting a pay raise for five years. But in the meantime they have continued to perform their duties well, serving the statutory requirements of the department and protecting the safety of county residents.
Both Altiere, 62, of Howland, and Phillips, 60, of Farmdale, have more than three decades in law enforcement. Both hold college degrees in criminal justice and have done postgraduate work. They are clearly qualified for the office they are seeking.
Phillips argues that he is the better choice in this election, based on his perception that Altiere is not performing adequately.
But if Altiere has become as detached from his duties as Phillips alleges, it doesn't show. Altiere talked enthusiastically about his strategy to do more with less in the sheriff's department, by cutting gasoline costs through a new bidding process, for instance, and by putting together departmental promotion exams rather than hiring a consultant. He's also been encouraging other departments to consolidate their dispatch operations through the county 911 center.
Certainly we have seen sheriffs who have stayed too long at the helm. But we're not persuaded that Altiere is one of them.
He says he's looking forward to four more years with enthusiasm, and we believe him. The Vindicator endorses the re-election of Thomas Altiere in Trumbull County.
The Vindicator knows all too well that the sheriff has, indeed, stayed too long.
Well it's a shame that the Vindicator has taken this stance, Altiere has been there 8 years too long. Just check out his Official Department Web site, and look at his message. "Coming Soon" Really after 19 years he has nothing to say. He is so disconnected and the Vindicator knows it. Hopefully the Citizens of Trumbull County realize it as well. Jim Phillips is a True Law Enforcement Officer with real experience. Not a fence rider that will tell you what he thinks you want to hear. People of Trumbull county please Educate yourself before going into the voting booth, Altiere has been cited for improper use of campaign funds, accepting donations from corporations. But the Vindy has their opinion. Jim is the True Leader.
Altiere is not responsible for bidding for gasoline that is done by the Commissioner's office and vehicle maintenance. The promotional testing is established by contract, and if he going to do it in-house it will be a farce. He'll be able to promote whomever he wants. A neutral non biased party should be responsible for testing. The Chiefs of Police association will do it for a reasonable cost, which eliminates the perception of favoritism. He sure doesn't have a problem shelling out 80 thousand dollars for legal expenses for an outside lawyer to negotiate contracts instead of doing it himself or using the county personnel director. Doing more with less, sure keep hiring more but refuse to give raises to the workers already there, every year of pay freeze is the same as a 2-3% cut in pay.
For anyone that cares to make an informed decision, please Google James R. Phillips for Sheriff and learn why Jim is clearly the best choice to be our next sheriff, period.
I notice the list of endorsements that Altiere claims to have on his public Facebook page is shrinking. Local unions have been complaining that He is listing them without their actual endorsement. And others have even laughed stating they don't even have a presence in Trumbull County. Where is Mrs. Loser's comment in regards to this? He still thinks he can do whatever he wants and not be held accountable. I can hear the swishing of the broom already.


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