Why health care privacy is a mess — and why it isn't likely to get better soon

Why health care privacy is a mess — and why it isn't likely to get better soon

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In an article for the IAPP, Partner Kirk Nahra discusses why health care privacy is a growing mess, how new developments are creating unnecessary complexity for the health care system, and why new state laws with unintended consequences could make the situation worse.

Excerpt: “In recent years, the tears in the structure have grown and created both tensions on privacy protection and unnecessary complexity for the health care system, making it much more difficult to develop a strong overall system. And in the past few years these challenges have exploded to the point where health care privacy now is a mess.”

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