David Balat is the director of the Right on Healthcare initiative at the Texas public Policy Foundation. He has broad experience across the healthcare spectrum with special expertise in healthcare finance. He is a former congressional candidate in Texas’ 2nd Congressional District and a seasoned hospital executive with more than 20 years of healthcare industry leadership and executive management experience.
From Clipboard to Cloud: Ensuring Patient Privacy and Portability in Health Records Key Points HIPAA protects institutions, not information. Once health data leaves a covered entity for an app, vendor, or broker, federal protection ends, and Texas law leaves that gap open. The interest at stake is not only access to clinical records. It is...
Filled with anticipation, a woman in her early 30s downloads a fertility-tracking app. She and her husband are finally ready to start their young family and have a baby. Every morning she logs her cycle, her basal temperature, her symptoms. She grants the app access to her Apple Health data because the onboarding screen says...
The Sharia Finance Industry in Texas Testimony of Sam Westrop Senior Fellow, Defeating Islamist Radicalization Texas Public Policy Foundation Chairman Hefner, Vice Chairman Lopez, and members of the Committee, Thank you for the opportunity to testify before you today. My name is Sam Westrop. I am the director of Islamist Watch at the Middle East...