Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 201: SHL Medical’s Investment in the Carolinas with Kimberlee Steele of SHL Medical
Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 174: Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare with Jonathan Samples, Partner at 121G
Health + Tech - Future of Precision Medicine With Dr. Amrie Grammer
Podcast: Discussing Information Blocking with Eddie Williams
Podcast - Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and How to Comply with HIPAA & State Privacy Laws
Health + Tech - How Digital Health Tools Help Create Greater Consumer Focus in Healthcare
Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 118: Matthew Roberts and Darra Coleman, Health Care Attorneys, Nexsen Pruet
Expanded Information Block Rules Go into Effect
5 Key Takeaways | Current Perspectives Around the Convergence of Life Sciences and IT
Podcast: Interoperability: Health Care's Next Disruptor Is openEHR - Diagnosing Health Care
Podcast: Interoperability: A New Vision Through openEHR - Diagnosing Health Care
Podcast: Interoperability - the Role of Health Information Exchanges - Diagnosing Health Care
AGG Talks: Technology - In the Balance: Interoperability and Security
Health+Tech - Episode 4: Exploring Recent Changes in Interoperability and Information Blocking
Health+Tech - Episode 2: Edge of Digital Health Transformation
What can Technology do for Your Practice?
Compliance Perspectives: The Ethics of Data
Information Blocking: How Will the New Rule Impact the Health Care Industry?
From NC State to Changing the State of Health Information Networks, with Medicom Technologies’ Malcolm Benitz
Exploring Digitization of Health and Medical Data and Records Part One
On February 8, 2024, the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) and Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) jointly issued a final rule to amend the...more
Eye on Health Information Exchange, Data Privacy and Alignment of Federal Standards – Information Blocking, HIPAA Updates and Part 2 Flexibility As we struggle to emerge from the effects of the pandemic, several key federal...more
The Compliance Institute is celebrating 25 years! Join us for the Compliance Institute's 25th anniversary, April 19-22, 2021. This year, HCCA is excited to celebrate over two decades of compliance excellence with our...more
The COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting need for patient access to remote healthcare, as well as the development of contact-tracing apps, have spotlighted the importance of health-focused mobile applications (mHealth apps)....more
Editors’ Note: This is the fourth in our fourth-annual end-of-year series examining important trends in data privacy and cybersecurity in the coming year. Our previous entry discussed the CCPA, energy, and Brexit. Up next:...more
Report on Patient Privacy Volume 19, Number 11. (November 2019) ? The biggest threat to protected health information comes from carelessness within your organization, according to a brief from the Clearwater...more
On April 18, 2019, the Department of Health & Human Services Office for Civil Rights (OCR) issued five new FAQs addressing the applicability of HIPAA to the use of software applications (apps) by individuals to receive health...more
The Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services recently announced that 2018 was a significant year in Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) enforcement activity. ...more
On December 13, 2016, President Obama signed the 21st Century Cures Act (the Cures Act) into law. The Cures Act addresses a wide range of healthcare topics including clinical research, treatment of mental health and substance...more
The US Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights recently posted guidance clarifying that a business associate such as an information technology vendor generally may not block or terminate access by a...more
On March 21, 2016, the HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) launched phase two of its much-anticipated audit program for covered entities and business associates. The announcement comes in the wake of OCR's issuance of two major...more
The Office for Civil Rights within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (OCR) is the federal agency tasked with enforcing the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). HIPAA, as most folks...more
This Halloween, the scariest monsters might not be in your closet or under your bed. They may be overseas, orchestrating intrusions into your electronic medical record. Or they may be lurking in your own workforce, carrying...more
The HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) must improve its oversight and enforcement of patient information privacy and security rules by “covered entities” and their business associates under the Health Information Portability...more
Everyone in healthcare knows that the next round of HIPAA audits is coming. Covered entities and business associates have long been advised to review and update their HIPAA security risk analyses, have business associate...more
On July 10, 2015, the United States Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced its second settlement of the year for violations of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act...more
The HHS Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (“ONC”) recently released a new and improved version 2.0 of their Guide to Privacy and Security of Electronic Health Information. This revamped...more
Mobile device use is becoming more commonplace in health care. Health care professionals use text messaging to communicate with each other about patient status. Medical schools now provide residents tablets to use as...more
The HIPAA Privacy Rule is intended to protect individually identifiable health information by limiting its use and disclosure. But the Privacy Rule expressly permits the de-identification of that information, and in doing so...more
The breach notification interim final rule requires covered entities to submit to the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) notice of breaches of unsecured protected health information (PHI) (45 C.F.R. 164.408) by March 1, 2013....more