Brian R. Jackson is a pathologist.
After all the hours spent in HIPAA training over the years, physicians and other health care workers might think of HIPAA as a powerful regulation. It’s true that HIPAA does require health care workers to follow a number of rules, with pretty harsh penalties for violations. But from a patient’s perspective, how well does U.S. law protect overall health information privacy? Unfortunately, not very well, and things are getting worse.
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A recent $3 billion settlement between drug giant GlaxoSmithKline and the FDA really got me thinking. On one hand, it’s a breathtakingly huge number, breaking the old record of $2.3 billion set by Pfizer a couple of years back. And there are some initial indications that the pharmaceuticals may be cleaning up their act a bit, expanding their compliance departments, and reining in their sales forces in order to …
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