On April 26, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued a final rule to amend its Health Breach Notification Rule (HBN Rule). The HBN Rule works as a complement and counterpart to the breach notification requirements...more
5/29/2024
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Breach Notification Rule ,
Electronic Health Record Incentives ,
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ,
Final Rules ,
Health Care Providers ,
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) ,
Healthcare ,
Mobile Apps ,
Notification Requirements ,
PHI ,
Popular
On April 26, 2024, the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued a final rule (press release, fact sheet, FAQs) reinterpreting Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), which prohibits discrimination on the...more
5/9/2024
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Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) ,
Disability Discrimination ,
Final Rules ,
Gender Discrimination ,
Gender Identity ,
Health Care Providers ,
Health Insurance ,
Healthcare ,
Medicare Part B ,
New Regulations ,
Non-Discrimination Rules ,
Race Discrimination ,
Section 1557 ,
Sexual Orientation Discrimination
On December 13, 2023, the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) issued the Health Data, Technology, and Interoperability: Certification...more
The California legislature has created a lot of holiday homework for California healthcare providers, passing more than 50 new laws regulating a wide range of healthcare providers and healthcare business operations that apply...more
On October 30, 2023, the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released a...more
The US Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (HHS-OIG) issued a final rule to implement its authority under the 21st Century Cures Act to investigate allegations of information blocking and...more
8/3/2023
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Civil Monetary Penalty ,
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) ,
Enforcement Actions ,
Final Rules ,
Health Care Providers ,
Health Information Technologies ,
Information Blocking Rules ,
Information Sharing ,
OIG ,
Physicians ,
Risk Mitigation ,
Webinars
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
7/10/2023
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Amended Rules ,
Civil Monetary Penalty ,
CMP Law ,
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) ,
Electronic Medical Records ,
Enforcement Actions ,
Health Care Providers ,
Health Information Technologies ,
Information Blocking Rules ,
Information Technology ,
Investigations ,
OIG ,
Proposed Rules ,
Reporting Requirements
Healthcare is rapidly changing, with artificial intelligence (AI) and algorithmic models leading the transformation. In recent years, big data and machine learning algorithms have revolutionized our ability to predict...more
On January 17, 2023, the California Health and Human Services Agency (CalHHS) released updated drafts of four policies and procedures (P&Ps) under the California Data Exchange Framework (DxF) to support the implementation of...more
1/30/2023
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Comment Period ,
Compliance ,
Data-Sharing ,
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) ,
Final Rules ,
Health Care Providers ,
Hospitals ,
Information Blocking Rules ,
ONC ,
Policies and Procedures ,
Policy Updates
By January 31, 2023, general acute care hospitals, clinical labs and certain physician organizations and medical groups in California are required to enter into the Single Data Sharing Agreement (DSA) to participate in the...more
12/22/2022
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California ,
Clinical Laboratories ,
Data Privacy ,
Data Security ,
Data-Sharing ,
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) ,
Health and Safety ,
Health Care Providers ,
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) ,
HIPAA Privacy Rule ,
Hospitals ,
Personally Identifiable Information ,
Physicians ,
Policies and Procedures ,
Social Services