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Oliver Kim

  • Digital Health

    A Delicate Balance: Proposed Regulations May Upset the Tension between Accessibility and Privacy of Health Information

    This piece was part of a symposium featuring commentary from participants in the Center for Health Policy and Law’s annual conference, Promises and Perils of Emerging Health Innovations, held on April 11-12, 2019 at Northeastern University School…

    A Delicate Balance: Proposed Regulations May Upset the Tension between Accessibility and Privacy of Health Information

    Doctor types on a laptop
  • Mobile Health

    Access as Equity: Efforts to Use Telemedicine to Expand Abortion Access

    By Oliver Kim I’ve written here before about areas where technology could play a role in providing access to complicated, controversial healthcare services. Earlier this year, I presented a forthcoming paper co-authored with a colleague…

    Access as Equity: Efforts to Use Telemedicine to Expand Abortion Access

    Illustration of cell phones and prescription pill bottles
  • End-of-Life

    Telemedicine Adds a Wrinkle to Latest New Mexico Legislative Debate on Aid in Dying

    While telemedicine advocates may see the New Mexico bill as a one-off issue, it should prompt some thinking about the limits of telemedicine and what practitioners are comfortable performing—or fighting for— via this tool.

    Telemedicine Adds a Wrinkle to Latest New Mexico Legislative Debate on Aid in Dying

    Telemedicine. Image of a patient speaking to a doctor on a mobile phone.
  • Health Law Policy

    A data set that looks like America

    By Oliver Kim May marks the annual Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, which recognizes the history and contributions of this diverse population in the United States. Accounting for that diversity though is one…

    A data set that looks like America

  • Health Care Finance

    World Trade Month: Trade’s impact on domestic drug prices

    By Oliver Kim Happy World Trade Month! While health policy is often seen as something particularly domestic, trade can have an impact on health policy here at home. Just a day before President Trump’s speech…

    World Trade Month: Trade’s impact on domestic drug prices

  • Health Law Policy

    Wishes at the end of life: comparing the right to try and right to die

    By Oliver Kim After an initial procedural hiccup, the House of Representatives passed a modified version of a federal “right to try” bill, legislation that would allow pharmaceutical companies to bypass the federally-prescribed clinical trial…

    Wishes at the end of life: comparing the right to try and right to die

  • Health Law Policy

    Slightly Hazy: An Insurer’s Emergency Room Policy Draws Congressional Scrutiny

    By Oliver Kim Last year, I had the good fortune to present at the Petrie-Flom Center’s conference on transparency and I started with an anecdote about a congressman who decided to wait rather than take…

    Slightly Hazy: An Insurer’s Emergency Room Policy Draws Congressional Scrutiny