Enforcement of Electronic Health Records
Technology in Healthcare
Tax Developments Affecting Health Care Organizations and Investor-Owned Hospital Companies
A few months ago on this blog, I wrote about using Artificial Intelligence (AI) to keep up with the “alphabet soup” of compliance. An important area to address from a compliance standpoint is health data and at least two of...more
Dive into a broad spectrum of topics affecting healthcare organizations. Explore the latest laws, regulations, and developments to help you effectively manage your organization’s privacy compliance program. Our Academies are...more
Dr. Steven A. Porter, M.D., P.C. (Dr. Porter’s Practice) and the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Service (HHS) entered into a $100,000 no-fault settlement agreement and two year...more
Google Health’s Partnerships Raise Privacy Concerns - Recently, Google has been at the center of privacy concerns due to its health- sharing collaborations with the University of Chicago Medical Center (the Medical Center)...more
We have definitely seen an uptick in the number of ransomware attacks against municipalities around the country. Thus far, the attacks have been against single cities, towns, and court systems, and recently against a...more
This is the second in a two-part article on healthcare data transparency and how providers and payers can leverage data as a population health opportunity. Part one, TRANSPARENCY: Embracing CMS’s Push To Publicize Your...more
On Feb. 11, 2019, two Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) agencies, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), released...more
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) recently finalized the first version of its interoperability roadmap, Connecting Health and Care for the Nation: A Shared Nationwide...more