Today's issue of TL NewsWire covers a research service dedicated to health care regulations, including tools to keep you apprised of regulatory deadlines (see article below). In addition, you'll find links to the previous 11 TL NewsWire features, including our coverage of holiday gift ideas for cultured geeks with good taste, a specialized legal research service for trademark law, including tools for quickly obtaining answers across different circuit courts and international jurisdictions, and much more. Don't miss the next issue.
The Affordable Care Act added to an already rich regulatory environment in the health care industry. Perhaps no other practice area offers lawyers as much opportunity to stay gainfully employed — provided you can stay on top of the torrent of information and find answers fast. A single point of reference is the best option for doing so.
Health Reform KnowlEDGE Center … in One Sentence
Wolters Kluwer's Health Reform KnowlEDGE Center is an online health care law research solution, offering primary and secondary sources as well as specialized tools.
The Killer Feature
Regulations and deadlines go hand in hand. The Health Reform Law and Regulatory Calendar Tracker in Health Reform KnowlEDGE Center enables you to find all applicable deadlines.
Select a source such as a C.F.R. section, a time frame, or one or more topics (e.g., Health Insurers, Medicare, Tax Impact, etc.). This generates a table listing all the effective dates related to your query. Each effective date is accompanied by the source, topic, and instructions written by the lawyer editors who maintain Health Reform KnowlEDGE Center. Click a source to view it. To stay on top of items of interest, you can receive email alerts. You can also export deadlines and related information in a variety of formats, including iCal for importing into a calendar such as Outlook.
Other Notable Features
More than 30 additional Practice Tools exist that work similarly to the Calendar Tracker. For example, Health Reform Navigators enable you to generate summaries on particular topics, including the date the regulation last changed, expert analysis, and links to primary sources. Other tools include Checklists, Decision Trees, and Wolters Kluwer's popular Smart Charts. These tools can reduce the time required to complete a memo or survey.
Among the more popular features of Health Reform KnowlEDGE Center is the Health Reform WK-EDGE news feed comprised of exclusive articles that keep you apprised of new developments related to health care reform. Search the archives back to 2013. Stay on top of breaking news by subscribing to the Health Reform WK-EDGE email newsletter or using the Android or iPhone app of the same name. You can customize the newsletter and app by jurisdiction, topic, and document type. For areas of intense interest, receive an email alert upon publication of a matching article.
You access Health Reform KnowlEDGE Center via a dashboard that you can customize with the references and tools you use most often. Also, you can search through all materials or a subset of content. Primary sources include state and federal cases, administrative decisions, statutes, proposed and final rules, notices, agency documents such as CMS Letters and OIG Reports, and much more.
What Else Should You Know?
"The Health Reform KnowlEDGE Center migration to the Cheetah platform is timely," says Paul Clark, Managing Editor, Health Law, Wolters Kluwer Legal & Regulatory U.S. "Congress is still attempting to repeal and replace the ACA, while the Trump administration is using its executive power to scale back regulation of the law. In this time of uncertainty and change, having a single source like Health Reform KnowlEDGE Center for news, analysis, primary source and tools remains important." Learn more about Health Reform KnowlEDGE Center.
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