2020: An Unprecedented Year for Digital Health
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) announced a new proposed rule on April 11, 2023, titled “Health Data, Technology, and Interoperability: Certification Program Updates, Algorithm...more
On April 21, 2020, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services released a series of announcements signaling its intention to finalize and enforce certain aspects of the Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) Cures Act...more
On March 9, 2020, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) finalized two sets of regulations that are intended to increase patients' access to health data. As explained by HHS Secretary Alex M. Azar, "These...more
Just two months after taking office, in July 2017, Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Scott Gottlieb announced the agency’s Digital Health Innovation Action Plan, which recognized that “digital technology has...more
2017 was slightly above average for new corporate integrity agreements (CIAs), with 46 entered into by the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) and companies and individuals...more
Unbeknownst to many, Congress established the Health Care Industry Cybersecurity Task Force in 2015 to address the health care industry’s cybersecurity challenges. That Task Force–a combination of public and private...more
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”), Office of the National Coordinator (“ONC”) has published two free online playbooks to assist healthcare providers navigate healthcare information technology (“IT”)....more
On April 8, 2016, the HHS Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) published a request for information (RFI) in the Federal Register (available here), seeking feedback on how to measure the...more
On March 16, 2016, via an online blog announcement, Department of Health & Human Services (“HHS”) Acting Deputy Secretary Mary Wakefield announced the formation of a Health Care Industry Cybersecurity Task Force (“Task...more
This Week: House Ways & Means Committee Holds Markup; Makes Significant Legislative Changes to Health Care Bills... Senate Finance Committee Holds Markup on Medicare Appeals Process Bill... CMS Issues Final Rule on...more
According to a recent study by Accenture, by 2017 approximately 18 percent of the American public will purchase insurance through exchanges versus relying on traditional employer healthcare coverage or foregoing insurance...more