Dan Munro

Contributor|Healthcare

With an enterprise software engineering background, I cover the intersections between technology, innovation, and policy that are unfolding inside one of America’s largest industries – healthcare. First appearing in Forbes as a Contributor in 2011, I've written for a wide range

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3,288 viewsOct 25, 2021

Millions Of Patient Health Records Now At Risk Through Unregulated API’s

Over the course of about a year, a single ethical hacker was able to access millions of patient health records and expose systemic risks in software that are effectively outside the legal jurisdiction of the Health Information Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA).

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132,332 viewsOct 8, 2019

Trump Executive Order Sparks Concern Over Medicare Funding

Late last week, President Trump signed an Executive Order with sweeping implications for how Medicare is priced and, by extension, how much the government winds up spending annually on Medicare.

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Jul 29, 2018

New Documentary Film Is Scathing Indictment Of FDA's Regulation Of Medical Devices

A new documentary film highlights multiple systemic flaws in the FDA's approval process specifically for medical devices and it's putting millions of patients at risk.

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Jun 21, 2018

10 Reasons Why Employers -- And New Ventures -- Won't 'Disrupt' U.S. Healthcare

While they are often high-profile and stir the imagination, new ventures - including the one announced earlier this year by Amazon, Berkshire and JPMorgan Chase - won't disrupt U.S. healthcare.

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May 13, 2018

Patient Number One At The Front Door Of Free Healthcare In America

Through any lens, life at 3 a.m. can be pretty grainy, but that's also when human determination can be in razor sharp focus.