May 2004

05/27/2004 House Bill 215 - reported out of House Insurance Committee
05/27/2004 Medical Malpractice Commission meets to learn more about a Patient Compensation Fund
05/27/2004 HB 331 - Mammography Screening Bill
05/27/2004 Legislation requiring pre-school Chicken Pox immunizations passes
05/27/2004 Medicare Web Site Causes Frustration - Prepare for Patient Questions
05/27/2004 Educational Packet Available for Providers Mass Immunizing Patients Against Influenza and Pneumonia
05/27/2004 Akron's Summa Health System Installs a Computerized Physician Order Entry System 
05/27/2004 Health & Human Services' Office of Civil Rights Offers Web Site Regarding HIPAA Compliance
05/14/2004  HB 238 Medical Malpractice Payments - Establishes and finances a patient's compensation fund to pay for catastrophic medical malpractice judgments and settlements.
05/14/2004 House passes Republican-backed malpractice bill
05/14/2004 New Surveys Report Most Americans Support Legal Reform - Common Good
05/14/2004 New Requirements for Infectious Waste Generators (Ohio)
05/14/2004 Influenza vaccine orders filling up fast
05/11/2004 Medical Malpractice Insurance Update
05/08/2004 HB 215 is substituted - Medical screening panels completely removed from the bill
05/08/2004 Senate version of SB 80 (Comprehensive tort reform) is placed into Sub. HB 350
05/08/2004 House Passes Tobacco Budget without any additional amendments
05/08/2004 Alert from the CDC - Four Possible SARS Cases Reported in China
05/08/2004 Senator Voinovich, Governor Taft, and Mark McClellan of U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services praise the start-up of the Medicare Prescription Drug Discounts