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How would you like to change HIPAA?

Health Blawg

OCR has done a bang-up job elucidating the regs through a series of sub-regulatory guidance documents , and I would urge both regulators and the regulated community to start with the regs and those guidance documents and see whether any changes are really needed, or whether the problem is with communication and education.

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How would you like to change HIPAA?

Health Blawg

OCR has done a bang-up job elucidating the regs through a series of sub-regulatory guidance documents , and I would urge both regulators and the regulated community to start with the regs and those guidance documents and see whether any changes are really needed, or whether the problem is with communication and education.

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Welcome Back Kotter: New York’s next 1115 Waiver

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I’ve cut/pasted selected sentences from the DOH document to make it easy to follow here – but (of course) the full document has more detail/explanation. So with this too many/too few framework – let’s parse the Kotter Edition and see how we are doing. HERO, therefore, opens the door to the same challenges we had with DSRIP.