Today's nurses are indeed mobile, as one hospital system recently learned the hard way:
SSM Health Care, a St. Louis-based hospital system has agreed to pay $1.7 million in back pay to nurses who had time deducted from their pay during meals despite whether or not they worked via their mobile phones, according to a report from the Associated Press.
The U.S. Department of Labor found that the...
By Bradley Merrill Thompson, Partner, Epstein Becker & Green, P.C.
Last month I outlined the triggers that could cause an ordinary mobile phone to become an FDA-regulated medical mobile phone. This month, in the second of six planned articles, I will outline the FDA requirements that would apply to a mobile phone that crosses that line.
To summarize the July 13 article on "FDA may regulate...
