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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Leon Rodriguez, Director, HHS OCR, discusses HIPAA / HITECH Enforcement Last Week

[View the story "Leon Rodriguez, Director, HHS OCR, discusses HIPAA / HITECH…

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Person-Centered HealthCare: Can Patient-Centered Care Reduce Hospital Readmissions?

                   Photo:Hospital/shutterstockA new Press Ganey white paper highlights an association between HCAHPS…

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Data Breach Analysis 2009-2012 – HITECH Experience Reviewed by HITRUST

In the first three years that the HITECH data breach notification rules…

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OCR Releases HIPAA Privacy Rule Guidance on De-Identifying PHI

Just two and a half years after hosting a workshop on the…

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Top Ten HHS Management and Performance Challenges

The OIG produces its list of Top Management and Performance Challenges (TMC)…

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Engage With Grace

As patients, as family members, as friends, as health care providers, we…

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MGMA 2012 Annual Conference – Small Steps, Big Changes

I spent a couple days this week at the annual meeting of…

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Medicine 2.0 – Day 2 was Bookended by Key Keynotes

Day 2 of  Medicine 2.0 opened and closed with keynote presentations that…

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Medicine 2.0 Takes Harvard Medical School by Storm

Last weekend, Boston hosted 500 cutting-edge health care practitioners, academics, researchers, app…

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HealthCamp Boston 2012: Recap

HealthCamp Boston 2012 took place on Friday September 14. We had an…

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