Healthcare Innovation June 10, 2021
Mark Hagland

University of Pennsylvania Law School professor Anita J. Allen, J.D., Ph.D. argues in a New England Journal of Medicine op-ed that the HIPAA law, while flawed, has had overall good impact, and remains a work in progress

Despite the constant darts thrown at the HIPAA (the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996) since President Bill Clinton signed the legislation into law 25 years ago, an expert in legal privacy issues shares a “glass half-full” perspective on the law, whose provisions have been the foundation for healthcare privacy rules in the past quarter century.

Writing in The New England Journal of Medicine online on June 10, Anita J. Allen, J.D., Ph.D., a professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law...

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