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Burr & Forman

Healthcare Provider Disincentives for Information Blocking

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On June 31, 2024, the Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) published a final rule establishing penalties for healthcare providers who violate the information blocking rules implemented under the 21st Century Cures...more

King & Spalding

HHS Finalizes Disincentives for Healthcare Providers That Have Committed Information Blocking

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Last week, HHS published its final rule outlining disincentives for certain healthcare providers that have committed information blocking (the Final Rule). The Final Rule also provides information related to OIG’s...more

Ballard Spahr LLP

2024 HIPAA Developments

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Over the course of the past few months, the Office of Civil Rights (OCR) and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC), both of which are divisions of the U.S. Department of Health and...more

Dentons

Ep. 19 - What to Do When Your Business Associate Suffers a Ransomware Attack

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The healthcare industry remains a popular target for ransomware attacks. If you haven’t been impacted by a ransomware attack, it’s likely only a matter of time before someone you do business with or buy services from is...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

How Physicians are Pioneering Use of AI Applications in Ambulatory and Inpatient Care

At last week’s America’s Physician Group Spring conference in San Diego, California, our team heard firsthand how physicians are leading efforts to integrate Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications in ambulatory and...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Privacy Briefs: May 2024

Kaiser Permanente is notifying 13.4 million current and former members that their personal information may have been compromised when it was transmitted to tech giants Google, Microsoft Bing and X (formerly Twitter) when...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Privacy Briefs: April 2024

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency (CISA) is seeking comment on a proposed rule to implement reporting requirements for critical infrastructure entities, including health care entities, on cyberattacks and ransomware...more

Epstein Becker & Green

ONC’s “Information Blocking Enhancements” Under the HTI-1 Rule Are in Effect

On Monday, March 11, 2024, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology’s (ONC) Health Data, Technology, and Interoperability: Certification Program Updates, Algorithm Transparency, and Information...more

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

HIPAA Enforcer Updates Guidelines on Online Tracking Amid Calls for Clarity: Key Takeaways

On March 18, 2024, the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) updated its December 2022 guidance for HIPAA-regulated entities regarding the use of online tracking technologies...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Out in the Open: HHS’s New AI Transparency Rule

The Department of Health & Human Services through the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology recently updated the process for certification of health information technology. Some of the...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Privacy Briefs: March 2024

Research from Guidepoint Security found that 2023 saw an 80% increase in ransomware activity year-over-year, driven in part by multiple mass exploitation campaigns impacting hundreds of organizations. In total, the report...more

McDermott+

McDermottPlus Check-Up: February 9, 2024

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House Passes Legislation to Prohibit Use of QALYs in All Federal Health Programs. The House passed H.R. 485, the Protecting Health Care for All Patients Act of 2023, a bill designed to prohibit the use of QALYs and similar...more

Saul Ewing LLP

2024 Health Care Predictions

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Happy 2024!  The entire Saul Ewing Health Law Practice Group wishes you and yours a healthy and prosperous new year and successful (and compliant) activities in the health care delivery system this year and beyond....more

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

Cyber Strategy: HHS Weighs in on Cybersecurity in the Healthcare Industry

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Seyfarth Synopsis: The health care sector faces escalating cybersecurity risks given its size, technological dependence and the sensitive nature of data used therein. According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

[Event] Regional Healthcare Compliance Conference - January 19th, Charlotte, NC

Looking for compliance education and networking in your area? HCCA’s Regional Healthcare Compliance Conferences offer practitioners convenient, local compliance education on a wide variety of current and emerging topics...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Privacy Briefs: November 2023

Report on Patient Privacy 23, no. 11 (November, 2023) The American Hospital Association (AHA) is urging federal lawmakers to intervene with the HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) so that hospitals and health systems can...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

HHS Settles with Doctors’ Management Services Over Ransomware Attack

On October 31, 2023, the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) issued a press release announcing that it has settled with Doctors’ Management Services for $100,000 following a ransomware attack that compromised the protected health...more

Epstein Becker & Green

Dr. Jack of All Trades? OCR’s New Telehealth Guidance Suggests High Expectations on Providers

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On October 18, 2023, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”), which is tasked with enforcing the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (“HIPAA”), issued two new...more

Holland & Knight LLP

Podcast: Discussing Information Blocking with Eddie Williams

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In this episode of our “Florida Capital Conversations” podcast series, healthcare attorney Eddie Williams joins to discuss the dissemination of electronic health information and provisions regarding information blocking. He...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Joint Commission Issues Alert on Patient Safety After a Cyber-Attack

On August 15, 2023, the Joint Commission issued a Sentinel Event Alert entitled “Preserving patient safety after a cyberattack,” which provides “tips on what organizations can do to prepare to deliver safe patient care in the...more

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

Health IT Organizations Soon to Face Enforcement Under Final OIG Information Blocking Rule

After a COVID-19-related delay, on June 27, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) released a long-awaited final rule that establishes monetary penalties for violations of health...more

Akerman LLP - Health Law Rx

OIG Issues Information Blocking Penalties Final Rule: Health IT Developers and Health Information Exchanges/Networks Have a...

On June 27, 2023, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) issued its long-anticipated final rule amending the OIG’s civil monetary penalty (CMP) regulations as they relate to...more

Holland & Knight LLP

Information Blocking Enforcement Penalties Begin Sept. 1, 2023

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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) recently posted the final rule establishing civil monetary penalties (CMPs) for information blocking (IB Enforcement Rule). The Rule...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Revised Privacy Rule May Not Emerge for Two Years; Info Blocking Penalty Regulation Published

Report on Patient Privacy Volume 23, no 7 (July 2023) In two public talks this spring, Melanie Fontes Rainer, director of the HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR), said completing the 2021 proposed regulation extensively...more

McDermott Will & Emery

Special Report - A Million Reasons to Share: OIG’s Final Rule on Information Blocking Enforcement

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On July 3, 2023, the US Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) published its long-awaited final rule implementing the 21st Century Cures Act provisions authorizing OIG to investigate claims...more

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