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HCCA's Healthcare Privacy Compliance Academy is a three-and-a-half-day interactive education program with a focus on the vast body of privacy laws and regulations in place to help you protect PHI and other critical data. Our...more
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) continued its commitment to timely and full access to health records on June 24, 2024, through the finalization of its information blocking disincentives rule for...more
In the midst of an industry reeling from the Change Healthcare cybersecurity incident, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has issued a series of final rules requiring...more
Ideal for professionals with some compliance knowledge and experience, HCCA’s Healthcare Privacy Compliance Academy offers practitioners a deeper understanding of effective compliance management in a healthcare setting. The...more
Designed for professionals with some compliance knowledge and experience, HCCA’s Healthcare Privacy Compliance Academy is ideal for practitioners who want a deeper understanding of effective compliance management in a...more
General and specialty compliance training from the comfort of your home or office! HCCA’s Regional Healthcare Compliance Conferences provide practitioners with virtual compliance training that includes updates on the...more
Patients have hit a red-letter day in the long, too-difficult struggle to win control of a crucial part of their care - their electronic medical care records. Hospitals and other caregiving institutions no longer can...more
On March 2019, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) issued a Proposed Rule, 21st Century Cures Act: Interoperability, Information Blocking and the ONC Health Information Certification...more
The 21st Century Cures Act Information Blocking Rule, codified at 45 CFR Part 171, is intended to enhance access to, exchange or use of electronic health information (EHI), and generally prohibits "actors" from knowingly...more
Compliance Today (May 2022) - United States healthcare professionals and patients stand upon the cusp of unprecedented, burdensome regulatory changes that will affect automation and how we manage access to patient...more
While the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) issued the 21st Century Cures Act; Interoperability, Information Blocking, and the ONC Health IT Certification Program (Information Blocking...more
Since the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) Privacy Rule became effective in 2003, it generally required covered entities to provide patients timely access to their medical records. Of...more
On March 9, 2020, the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) released its long-awaited final rule identifying conduct that does not...more
As mandated by the 21st Century Cures Act of 2016 (the “Cures Act”), in June 2018 the Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) issued guidance clarifying how individual authorizations under the Privacy Rule of the Health Insurance...more
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Civil Rights (OCR) has issued new guidance on HIPAA and individual authorization of uses and disclosures of protected health information (PHI) for research, as called...more
This week, the Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights (OCR) issued guidance on the use of HIPAA-compliant authorizations for research based on a mandate in the Cures Act for such guidance. The...more
The 21st Century Cures Act (Cures) was signed into law December 13, 2016. While the primary focus of the 996-page Act centered on biomedical innovation, several components of Cures have significant implications for health...more
On December 13, 2016, President Obama signed the 21st Century Cures Act (the Cures Act) into law. The Cures Act addresses a wide range of healthcare topics including clinical research, treatment of mental health and substance...more