David Harlow

DAVID HARLOW is Principal of The Harlow Group LLC, a health care law and consulting firm based in the Hub of the Universe, Boston, MA. His thirty 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 adept at assisting clients in developing new paradigms for their business organizations, relationships and processes so as to maximize the realization of organizational goals in a highly regulated environment, in realms ranging from health data privacy and security to digital health strategy to physician-hospital relationships to the avoidance of fraud and abuse. He's been called "an expert on HIPAA and other health-related law issues [who] knows more than virtually anyone on those topics.” (Forbes.com.) His award-winning blog, HealthBlawg, is highly regarded in both the legal and health policy blogging worlds. 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. You should follow him on Twitter.
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Privacy and Security: Joke or No Joke?

The Wall of Shame welcomes Sutter Health. Another computer with unencrypted protected…

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TEDxCambridge 2011 Twitter Feed

I'm at TEDxCambridge today.  Should be interesting.  Follow along on Twitter at…

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OCR HIPAA Audits Finally Kick Off – Do They Matter?

The HITECH Act called for stepped-up HIPAA privacy and security and breach…

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Increasing Medicare Eligibility Age and the Law of Unintended Consequences

On my way to the annual two-day blowout health law seminar put…

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Social Media Summit at Mayo Clinic: Final Day Exclusive Report

  EXCLUSIVE POST - Lee Aase and his team planned a week’s…

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Ladies and Gentlemen, the Final Accountable Care Organization Regulations!

Today, CMS released the final ACO regs, after many months and after…

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Social Media Summit at Mayo Clinic: Day Two Exclusive Report

EXCLUSIVE POST - Tuesday was definitely multimedia day at the Mayo Ragan…

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Social Media Summit at Mayo Clinic: Day One Exclusive Report

The Third Annual Social Media Summit at Mayo Clinic kicked off Sunday…

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Health Care Social Media Summit at Mayo Clinic

The Third Annual Social Media Summit takes place this week at the Mayo Clinic.…

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Lab Results for All! Of Data Liberation, Participatory Medicine, and Government 2.0

On September 14, HHS released for comment draft lab results regulations that will, if…

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