Alternative perspectives on technology policy in the Trump administration (Stuart N. Brotman, Robin Lewis, Nicol Turner-Lee, Niam Yaraghi, Brookings)

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/techtank/2016/12/21/alternative-perspectives-on-technology-policy-in-the-trump-administration/

Five-star ratings for sub-par service: Evidence of inflation in nursing home ratings (Niam Yaraghi, Ram Gopal, Xu Han, Brookings)

https://www.brookings.edu/research/five-star-ratings-for-sub-par-service-evidence-of-inflation-in-nursing-home-ratings/

The future of health information technology in a Trump presidency (Niam Yaraghi, Brookings)

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/techtank/2016/11/22/the-future-of-health-information-technology-in-a-trump-presidency/

New HHS rules undermine the most important health care law in fifty years (Niam Yaraghi, Brookings)

In the heat of political gridlock when it seemed impossible for Congress to pass any laws, the Medicare and CHIP Reauthorization Act, commonly known as MACRA, was passed with overwhelming bipartisan support. MACRA, which was signed into law in April 2015, replaces the older fee-for-service payment models with a quality payment program which rewards value rather than volume. It may be the second most important law to reform the United States’ health care system after the Social Security Amendments which created Medicare and Medicaid in 1965.

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/techtank/2016/10/12/new-hhs-rules-undermine-the-most-important-health-care-law-in-fifty-years/

Hacking hospitals: Is our personal information at risk? (Niam Yaraghi, Fred Dews, Brookings)

In this episode, Niam Yaraghi, a fellow in the Brookings Institution's Center for Technology Innovation, explains the current dilemma of security breaches of medical records that are hitting the health care industry.

http://www.brookings.edu/research/podcasts/2016/04/hacking-hospitals

Hospital hacks expose security weaknesses (Niam Yaraghi, Brookings)

U.S. hospitals appear to be under a new type of IT hacking attack: crypto-ransomware. Hackers have changed their approach and instead of stealing patient data, they are now locking down the computer systems of hospitals and asking for a ransom, in bitcoin, in order to allow hospitals to have access to their own computers. Multiple hospitals in California and Kentucky and Maryland have been the victim of such attacks over the last week and despite an FBI investigation into the MedStar hack, there seems to be no solution on the horizon.

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Niam Yaraghi is a fellow in the Brookings Institution's Center for Technology Innovation. He is an expert on economics of healthcare information technology with a focus on Health Information Exchange (HIE) systems. Niam's research examines the network externalities in the healthcare market and their effects on HIE adoption and usage. His research is currently focused on analyzing the outcomes of HIE use in reducing the costs and increasing the quality of healthcare services.

A Health Hack Wake-Up Call (Niam Yaraghi, Brookings)

Hospitals went digital almost overnight, but they neglected to prioritize patient data protection.

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Niam Yaraghi is a fellow in the Brookings Institution's Center for Technology Innovation.

Tear down this health care information breach “wall of shame” (Niam Yaraghi, Brookings)

http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/techtank/posts/2016/03/08-health-information-breach-wall-of-shame-yaraghi

You should control your own health care data (Niam Yaraghi, Brookings)

If you have ever stayed at a hospital, visited a physician's office or filled a prescription at a U.S. pharmacy, your medical information—stripped of identifying data—is most likely collected, shared and analyzed for various medical and marketing purposes. Your data may have helped a pharmaceutical company sell more drugs, a researcher find a better treatment option for a disease or a government agency predict the next flu outbreak. This is done through a multibillion-dollar industry that feeds on your medical data and reaps millions of dollars from analyzing it, without asking your permission or sharing the resulting profits with you.

http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/techtank/posts/2016/02/17-patients-should-control-health-care-data-yaraghi

TechTank looks ahead to 2016 (Stuart N. Brotman, Kevin C. Desouza, Niam Yaraghi, Brookings)

http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/techtank/posts/2016/01/19-top-science-technology-policy-issues-2016

Yelp can help: Rating access to electronic medical records will hold hospitals accountable (Brookings)

http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/techtank/posts/2015/10/05-yelp-ehr-accountability-yaraghi

(Istituto fondamentale - Global) Four things to remember about DOD's health IT overhaul (Niam Yaraghi, Brookings)

http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/techtank/posts/2015/08/10-yaraghi-dod-health-it-contract

(Istituto fondamentale - Global) Implementing meaningful use stage three will be a mistake (Niam Yaraghi, Brookings)

http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/techtank/posts/2015/07/20-implementing-meaningful-use