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Health Policy/Reform

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Contact Tracing: 10 Unique Challenges of COVID-19

10 challenges of COVID-19 contact tracing.

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Health Data Outside HIPAA: Simply Extending HIPAA Would Be a #FAIL

Health Data Outside HIPAA: Simply Extending HIPAA Would Be a #FAIL

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Protecting Health Data Outside of HIPAA: Will the Protecting Personal Health Data Act Tame the Wild West ?

Congress is seriously considering bipartisan legislation — the “Protecting Personal Health Data Act” — to better protect the privacy of consumers’ personal data.

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Health Data Outside HIPAA: The Wild West of Unprotected Personal Data

The average patient will, in his or her lifetime, generate about 2,750 times more data related to social and environmental influences than to clinical factors.

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Pending Federal Privacy Legislation: A Status Update

The buzz around federal privacy legislation continues, but as of yet there appear to be no proposals or bills that have emerged as the lead bills.
Despite the perceived lack of movement of current bills, the ticking clock on the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) suggests this issue is quite live in Congress, albeit less visible to most of us.

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New Series on THCB — The Health Data Goldilocks Dilemma: Privacy? Sharing? Both?

The Goldilocks Dilemma has U.S. policymakers driving toward two seemingly conflicting goals:
1) Broader data interoperability and data sharing, and
2) Enhanced data privacy and data protection.

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For Your Radar — Huge Implications for Healthcare in Pending Privacy Legislation

The U.S. Congress is considering broad privacy and data protection legislation in 2019. There is some bipartisan support and a strong possibility that legislation will be passed. Federal privacy legislation would have a huge impact on all healthcare stakeholders, including patients.

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ONC Report on Health Information Blocking: A Solid Double, But NOT a Home Run

A Stand Up Double

By Vince Kuraitis JD, MBA and David C. Kibbe MD, MBA

Last Friday ONC (the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT) released a long-awaited Report On Health Information Blocking. The ONC blog capsulizes the report:

Health information blocking occurs when persons or entities knowingly and unreasonably interfere with the exchange or use of electronic health information. Our report examines the known extent of information blocking, provides criteria for identifying and distinguishing it from other barriers […]

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The “Shake the Winter Blahs” Edition of Health Wonk Review

 

It’s the middle of winter. Feeling blah? Need some stimulation? You’ve come to the right place!

Welcome to The “Shake the Winter Blahs” Edition of the Health Wonk review. For the second time, it’s my honor to host HWR — providing you summaries and links to the best recent writing in the health blogosphere. Let’s go!

Federal Health Policy

At the Health Affairs Blog, Princeton professor Uwe Reinhardt jumps off from the recent controversy about Jonathan Gruber’s remarks describing the American public as […]

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ACO Lessons Learned: Revisiting the Timing of Downside Risk

The editor and publisher of Accountable Care News have been generous in allowing me to republish my article from the November 2014 issue.

Click here to download a .pdf copy of the article. It’s in-depth — about 2,000 words.

Here’s the article in a nutshell:

One of the most critical aspects of the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) ACO has been around the timing and certainty of requiring mandatory downside financial risk for physician and hospital participants. Provider protests cajoled CMS […]