Healthcare DIVE March 24, 2023
Joel Theisen argues for an update of HIPAA that acknowledges an advanced technology landscape and gives providers a fuller picture of patient health.
Back when America adopted the main law for medical privacy and technology, the most popular mobile device was a pager, home movies played on VHS at Blockbuster, and the leading search engines were AskJeeves, AltaVista and Dogpile.
Our times and tech have changed, but the famed HIPAA law of 1996 — the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act — remains stuck in the bygone era when the Macarena was still king.
Fortunately, there’s a bipartisan push in Washington to update the law, sponsored by Sens. Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin and John Cassidy of Louisiana. That...
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