Thu.Feb 11, 2021

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WiL – GH Series: Leadership through the eyes of GECCo by Anisa Jafar

The Healthcare Leadership

. Women in Leadership – Global Health Series: Leadership through the eyes of GECCo. . by Anisa Jafar. . I’ve never had any trouble considering myself a leader when it comes to following my own self. Generally, I have reflexively sought out and questioned what I find important and interesting and followed a reasonably self-led path. However, the idea of leading others is one not quite a comfortable fit.

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Federal Appellate Court Tosses Out HIPAA Penalty for Healthcare Data Breaches, Criticizes OCR

Triage Health Law

In a dramatic rebuttal of how the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Civil Rights’ (“OCR”) has historically enforced HIPAA with potential far-ranging consequences, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals recently handed down a landmark decision criticizing and restricting how OCR interprets HIPAA and OCR’s penalty authority. OCR brought an enforcement action against the University of Texas M.D.

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Most Americans Want a Vaccine, Dissatisfied with the Rollout

Health Populi

Seven in 10 U.S. adults are willing to be vaccinated, and they’re not happy about the process in getting their jab, according to Gallup’s poll taken in the last week of January 2021. The proportion of Americans willing to receive a COVID-19 vaccine has steadily grown since October 2020, which fell to a mere 50% of folks keen to get the shot.