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How would you like to change HIPAA?

Posted on January 16, 2019
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Talking about the NIH ?All of Us? Program with Dara Richardson-Heron MD, Chief Engagement Officer ? Harlow On Healthcare

Posted on January 07, 2019
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Anand Oswal, SVP at Cisco, on Building a Better Network ? Harlow On Healthcare

Posted on December 24, 2018
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Tufts? Peter Neumann and cost-effectiveness analysis ? Better health through better measurement ? Harlow On Healthcare

Posted on December 10, 2018
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Omri Shor of Medisafe presents targeted medication adherence tools ? Harlow On Healthcare

Posted on November 26, 2018
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Is there an ROI on AI?

Posted on November 15, 2018
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Joyce Lee, Doctor As Designer talks design thinking ? Harlow On Healthcare

Posted on November 12, 2018
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National Cybersecurity Awareness Month Takeaways

Posted on November 01, 2018
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Dave Ryan, Intel GM for IoT in Healthcare and the Future of Remote Care ? Harlow On Healthcare

Posted on October 29, 2018
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Ruchin Kansal and Strategic Partnerships: To Go Far, Go Together ? Harlow On Healthcare

Posted on October 15, 2018
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9 No-Nonsense Rules to Ensure a HIPAA-Compliant Health Care Social Media Strategy

Posted on March 27, 2011
Health care social media continues to be a hot-button issue for hospitals and other provider types around the country. Health care provider organizations considering taking a first step into social media often articulate concerns about regulatory and legal barriers to...

Social media in health care: David Harlow quoted in recent articles

Posted on March 23, 2011
Recent health care social media articles in the American Academy of Physician Assistants magazine, PA Professional (Social Media for Health Professionals - Avoiding the Pitfalls) and in SELF magazine (The Health Dangers of Facebook Posts) feature my advice to health...

Direct Project reaches critical mass: Interoperability on the horizon

Posted on March 21, 2011
The ONC announced today that the Direct Project now has commitments from about sixty health care and health IT organizations to support its vision of secure direct messaging of health information. Given the level of support across twenty states, a...

Who owns patient data? (The Walgreens edition)

Posted on March 21, 2011
Walgreens is being sued by customers who are not happy that their prescription information ? even though it has been de-identified ? is being sold by Walgreens to data-mining companies. The data privacy and security concerns surrounding the transfer of...

Partisan politics: It was ever thus

Posted on March 17, 2011
To those of you out there who are horrified by the depths to which our elected representatives in Washington and in the states have recently sunk in the pursuit of partisan goals, let me say: there's nothing new under the...

HealthNet and HIPAA, Again ... So, Does HIPAA Work?

Posted on March 15, 2011
HealthNet either lost, or had stolen from it, computer hard drives with PHI of 1.9 million subscribers that had been in a California facility. This latest HealthNet data security breach, which may have included names, Social Security numbers, addresses, health...

David Harlow quoted in AMA American Medical News story on daily deal websites

Posted on March 13, 2011
Groupon, LivingSocial and other daily deal websites are being used by health care providers -- though thus far mostly by those that are not covered by traditional commercial or governmental health insurance (e.g., dental, chiropractic, acupuncture services)...

Medicaid: Busting the Budget-Buster With Real Innovation or Rearranging the Deck Chairs on the Titanic?

Posted on March 03, 2011
Medicaid has been front and center this week as President Obama addressed the National Governors Association, and several governors testified before the House Energy and Commerce Committee. Obama told the governors that he supports the Wyden-Brown bill, which would accelerate...

Vote for HealthBlawg! Read Blawg Review #300 and then join the battle ... on my side

Posted on February 27, 2011
"Ed.," the anonymous editor of Blawg Review, has posted his 2010 Blawg Review roundup, featuring each of last year's hosts of the long-running law blog carnival, as well as a recent post from each host's blawg. He's soliciting nominations, votes,...

Putting patients into menaningful use: Regulators and providers are catching up with e-patients

Posted on February 27, 2011
The Health Research Institute at PricewaterhouseCoopers released a report last week entitled Putting patients into "meaningful use." It begins with the anecdote I've blogged about previously regarding a diagnosis by Facebook in lieu of a PHR, which some have highlighted...

David Harlow interviewed on Social Media for Health Care

Posted on February 24, 2011
Last month, Elissa Weitzman and others, researchers at the Children's Hospital Boston informatics program, published a paper in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association entitled "Social but safe? Quality and safety of diabetes-related online social networks," finding that...

Mass General and HIPAA, or The medical records that never returned

Posted on February 24, 2011
OCR announced today that Massachusetts General Hospital settled a HIPAA violation claim, without admitting liability, for $1 million and an agreement to revamp procedures for taking patient records off premises. The case involved a stack of paper records left on...

HIPAA CMPs: What's the point?

Posted on February 23, 2011
Yesterday, the federales announced: HHS Imposes a $4.3 Million Civil Money Penalty for Violations of the HIPAA Privacy Rule. The OCR Notice of Final Determination was issued to Cignet Health of Maryland, a health plan that had not responded to...

Massachusetts Health Reform, Part III

Posted on February 18, 2011
Today, Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick filed health care reform legislation that, if enacted, will take the Commonwealth to the next level, taking the third step in the process that began in 2006 with the universal coverage law, and continued in...

AQC to ACO: As goes Massachusetts, so goes the nation?

Posted on February 14, 2011
About four years ago here in Beantown, survivors of the last big ill-conceived or poorly-executed (depends who you ask) wave of health care management and finance innovation were kicking around for a new approach to aligning payor and provider incentives,...

Pan Mass Challenge 2011: The Training and Fundraising Begin

Posted on February 13, 2011
While things are still mighty cold and snowbound here in New England, and it's difficult to think about bicycling in this weather, I signed up a couple of weeks ago to ride in my eighth Pan Mass Challenge. (It will...

Measuring Patient Experience of Care

Posted on February 09, 2011
There is a growing recognition within the medical-industrial complex that the patient is a key element of the enterprise, and that patient satisfaction, patient experience, patient engagement, patient activation, patient-centeredness are very important...

Massachusetts: Future Hotbed of Value-Based Benefit Design?

Posted on January 25, 2011
The high cost of public sector health insurance benefits -- the albatross around the neck of many a mayor or town manager around the Commonwealth of Massachsuetts and around the country -- has once again attracted the attention of Governor...

David Harlow is Guest on Lawyer2Lawyer Podcast on Massachusetts Health Reform Issue

Posted on January 16, 2011
I am a guest on the latest edition of Lawyer2Lawyer, a podcast talk show on the Legal Talk Network hosted by fellow Bay State blawger Bob Ambrogi and Golden State lawyer Craig Williams, discussing aspects of the Massachusetts health reform...

Photographs of Snow

Posted on January 12, 2011
The snow hype machine has been in high gear around here, though I try not to pay attention. Last weekend, I took a walk around the neighborhood and took some photographs of snow. The light snowfall offered glimpses of something...

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