David Harlow
David Harlow is the Principal of The Harlow Group LLC, a health care law and consulting firm based in the Hub of the Universe, Boston, MA. His 30 years’ experience in the public and private sectors affords him a unique perspective on legal, policy and business issues facing the health care community. David is a charter member of the external Advisory Board of the Mayo Clinic Social Media Network and has served as the Public Policy Chair of the Society for Participatory Medicine, on the Health Law Section Council of the Massachusetts Bar Association and on the Advisory Board of FierceHealthIT. He speaks regularly before health care and legal industry groups on business, policy and legal matters. Keep track of what he is doing at HealthBlawg and on Twitter @healthblawg.
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What will be the impact of healthcare consolidation on primary care?
Health insurance companies are right to think that there is some magic that can happen when the relationships between payers and providers are rationalized. However, it is far from clear that what is good for the conglomerate is good for the patient.
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Appeals court rules that stolen laptops class action against payer can proceed
The theft of two unencrypted laptops from Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield put the personal health information of about 840,000 plan members at risk.
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Payer’s Place: Dr. Anil Singh
Dr. Anil Singh shares his insights into the strategies employed by the organization to identify the most effective digital solutions for their members.
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Health IT, MedCity Influencers
It’s time to simplify health data regulation. Don’t hold your breath
Aside from the current congressional logjam, gridlock or whatever your preferred metaphor may be, consider the fact that we are now embarking upon the general election season, which tends to add an additional layer of grandstanding and substantive paralysis to the usual fever dreams of the Potomac.
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Precision medicine and health privacy are leading to a converged path around big data in healthcare
They want to harness “big data” to solve big problems in healthcare.
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If your healthcare data security is dirty then you’ll soon have a date with the FTC
Healthcare needs to recognize that enforcement action will continue, and compliance should be a key business objective.
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Get your HIPAA house in order before the day of reckoning: HIPAA audits are coming
As the federales have been saying for some time now, the day of reckoning is coming for more covered entities — and now for business associates, too. OCR is inching closer to conducting more HIPAA audits
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ACO performance update shows many struggle to learn from failures and successes
A number of the Pioneer ACOs dropped out of the program, so even the more “advanced” participants are not uniformly delivering the best possible results.
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Discover the Next-Gen Platform for Integrated Collaborative Care
Beyond EHRs and digital front doors, reducing the gaps in patient care journeys.
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MedCity Influencers, Patient Engagement, Pharma
N of 1 – Reflections on extracting knowledge from data
There is enormous untapped potential in the N-of-1 clinical trial.
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The Meaningful Use Stage 3 API talk won’t matter if the tech isn’t ready
The Meaningful Use – Stage 3 proposed rule has been released, with official publication due […]
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Enhancing Efficiency in your Practices: Unleashing the Power of Greenway Health’s Optimization Services
Resolve your healthcare information technology concerns by optimizing your technology, boosting workflows, improving staff productivity, and driving revenue.
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Payer’s Place: Don Antonucci
The CEO of Providence Health Plan visits the Payer’s Place and addresses the future of payment models.
