For our first international episode this week we talked with Professor Deirdre Madden, a leading bioethicist and expert on health law at University College Cork in the Republic of Ireland. Professor Madden was author of the Report on Post-Mortem Practice and Procedure (2005) and Chairperson of the Commission on Patient Safety and Quality Assurance which published its Report, entitled Building a Culture of Patient Safety, in July 2008. She recently co-authored an overview of the national laws on electronic health records in the EU Member States. We opened with a discussion of some current trends in health law, including the EU/US Safe Harbour’s invalidation and recent developments in meaningful use. We then moved on to research regulation, with a brief mention of the US NPRM and more in-depth discussion of biobanking. Deirdre’s discussion of the Guthrie Cards in Ireland should be of great interest to those following developments in newborn screening and tissue storage in the US.
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