Enforcement of Electronic Health Records
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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
As discussed in a previous McGuireWoods alert, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) published final rules expected to be effective Jan. 19, 2021, that significantly amend the Physician Self-Referral Law...more
On December 2, 2020, under the Trump Administration's "Regulatory Sprint to Coordinated Care" initiative, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Office of Inspector General (OIG) published final...more
On March 9, 2020, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) published two major regulations that will give patients additional access to their health data, while also addressing security of that information. Health...more
On March 9, 2020, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced final rules seeking to give patients more access to, and control of, their health data. The final rules were issued by the Office of the National...more
Artificial intelligence (AI) has become part of our daily lives, from greeting us in the morning through smart home devices, creating shopping lists, playing music, setting timers, and alerting us of a traffic jam on our...more
On January 23, 2020, the United States District Court for the District of Columbia declared sections of the 2013 Omnibus Rule unlawful. The Court found that the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) impermissibly...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
On October 17, 2019, the Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) published proposed rules in the Federal Register that would amend existing and create new exceptions to the physician self-referral law (Stark Law) and safe...more
In furtherance of its goals of expanding the adoption of electronic health records (EHR) and improving security through the use of cybersecurity technology, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has proposed...more
This Client Alert serves as the third in a three-part series in which we describe and analyze the rules proposed by the Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) as part...more
On October 17, 2019, the Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) published two proposed rules (one by the Office of Inspector General (OIG) and one by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)) that, if...more
• The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) have issued a long-awaited proposal to reform the Physician Self-Referral Law’s (Stark Law’s) regulatory exceptions and to provide updated guidance for physicians and...more
On October 9, 2019, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' (HHS') Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and Office of Inspector General (OIG) announced plans for sweeping changes to rules policing health...more
On October 9, 2019, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) simultaneously released a set of proposed rules (the “Proposed Rules”) that, among other...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
Text messaging is a convenient way for busy doctors to communicate, but for years, the question has remained: are doctors allowed to convey sensitive health information with other members of their provider team over SMS? The...more
On December 13, 2016, President Obama signed the 21st Century Cures Act ("Cures Act"), H.R. 34, into law. It enjoyed bipartisan support and was overwhelmingly approved by the House and Senate in recent weeks. The expansive...more
The National Institute of Standards and Technology has announced that due to stakeholder feed-back, the period to submit comments for the draft guide, “Securing Electronic Health Records on Mobile Devices” has been extended...more
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is changing reimbursement methodologies for healthcare providers from a fee-for-service model to a value-based model. Healthcare providers are responding to the changing...more
With health care breaches constantly on the rise, increasing access to electronic health records (EHRs) from mobile devices, and more prevalent “shadow” cloud use, health care organizations are getting a bit of help from the...more
The Connecticut Supreme Court held that the federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) does not bar individuals from bringing negligence and emotional distress claims under state common law for breach...more
On Sept. 18, 2014, California’s governor approved Assembly Bill 1755, extending California’s stringent breach notification deadline for medical information breaches from five business days to 15 business days for clinics,...more
On Oct. 6, 2014, a final rule issued jointly by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and Office for Civil Rights (OCR) will require all HIPAA-covered labs...more
A recent court decision found that the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has authority to enforce the requirements for security of Protected Health Information, or PHI, as defined under the Health Information Portability and...more