Niam Yaraghi
Brookings
United States
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Past articles by Niam:
Regulating free speech on social media is dangerous and futile
Niam Yaraghi warns against mandating ideological diversity in social media content or in hiring staff at technology companies. → Read More
To advance health information exchange, we need a health IT consortium
The U.S. government has spent over $35 billion to incentivize adoption of electronic health records (EHR) systems, yet health information is rarely exchanged between providers. Newly federal guidelines encourage this exchange, but more incentives are needed to reach EHR’s transformative potential. → Read More
Patient privacy: Can past lessons prevent future failures?
Niam Yaraghi discusses the findings of his recently published paper and offers five recommendations on how government action and a cyber-insurance market can provide a remedy for health care sector privacy breaches. → Read More
Hackers, phishers, and disappearing thumb drives: Lessons learned from major health care data breaches
In this new report, Niam Yaraghi examines the recent privacy breaches in the health care system. He uncovers underlying factors leading to these incidents, documents lessons learned, and examines how to prevent similar breaches in the future. → Read More
Hacking hospitals: Is our personal information at risk?
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. → Read More
Hospital hacks expose security weaknesses
Niam Yaraghi writes about the new threat to U.S. hospital IT systems from ransomware attacks, where hackers lock down hospital computer systems and demand a bitcoin ransom in return for renewed access. Despite a recent string of such attacks across the country, there seems to be no solution on the horizon. → Read More
Tear down this health care information breach “wall of shame”
Niam Yaraghi writes about the Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights' requirement to publicly post on its website a list of health care information breaches that exposed 500 or more patient records. However, this "wall of shame" neither creates awareness nor motivates privacy protection in its current format. → Read More
You should control your own health care data
Niam Yaraghi argues that giving patients the power over who uses their data would benefit them both medically and financially. → Read More
TechTank looks ahead to 2016
At the beginning of another year, TechTank looks ahead to the technology policy issues that will be important in 2016. Several fellows of the Center for Technology Innovation offer their insight into cybersecurity, health care data management, and the automation of public services. → Read More
Why doctors still don't text or email their patients
The majority of medical providers in the United States still do not use email or text messages to communicate with their patients, in spite of patient demand. Why are we still using 20th century technology to communicate with our doctors in the 21st century? → Read More
Jeb Bush's health care plan fills Obamacare's health IT gaps
Niam Yaraghi writes about how Jeb Bush’s proposals for promoting health care innovations are well-suited to Obamacare's value-based payment models. → Read More
Jeb Bush's health care plan fills Obamacare's health IT gaps
Niam Yaraghi writes about how Jeb Bush’s proposals for promoting health care innovations are well-suited to Obamacare's value-based payment models. → Read More
Jeb Bush's health care plan fills Obamacare's health IT gaps
Niam Yaraghi writes about how Jeb Bush’s proposals for promoting health care innovations are well-suited to Obamacare's value-based payment models. → Read More
Yelp can help: Rating access to electronic medical records will hold hospitals accountable
Niam Yaraghi writes about how Yelp and other online review platforms can motivate medical providers to improve their ratings by allowing patients to easily access their electronic health records. → Read More
Going Digital: Why more physicians will adopt electronic health records
Only half of the U.S. office-based physicians have adopted a basic electronic health records system. Niam Yaraghi discusses three drivers which together will lead the other half of physicians to adopt electronic health records systems in the near future. → Read More
Yelping Uncle Sam: Criticizing government through online reviews
Niam Yaraghi argues that creating Yelp pages for government agencies may not be the best way to increase transparency and communicate with the public. → Read More
Doomed: Challenges and solutions to government IT projects
Niam Yaraghi writes about how why government IT projects often fail and what can be done to improve their rate of success. → Read More
Four things to remember about DOD's health IT overhaul
Niam Yaraghi offers some advice for a new project that aims to establish seamless medical data-sharing between the Department of Defense, Veterans Affairs, and the private sector. → Read More
Meaningful Use Program: Why it failed and how to save it
Niam Yaraghi writes about how a one-size-fits-all approach to Health IT may not address the needs of many different types of medical providers. → Read More
Online patient reviews: A response to the debate
In Niam Yaraghi’s recent article, he questioned the validity of online patient reviews as measures of the clinical expertise of medical providers. The piece ignited a heated debate on social media. Here he clarifies a few of his arguments. → Read More