Enforcement of Electronic Health Records
Technology in Healthcare
Tax Developments Affecting Health Care Organizations and Investor-Owned Hospital Companies
On July 30, 2025, CMS issued a press release announcing its Health Tech Ecosystem initiative, a voluntary, patient-centric initiative aimed at utilizing technology to improve the patient experience. The main goals of the...more
EHR Safe Harbor Permanent - The existing electronic health records items and services Safe Harbor in 42 CFR Section 1001.952(y) was amended by deleting the sunset provision, thereby making the protection permanent....more
On September 17, 2020, the Office of Management and Budget received an Interim Final Rule for review from the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) entitled “Information Blocking and the ONC Health IT...more
A tricky issue for mobile health app developers since the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) released its first “Health App Use Scenarios & HIPAA” guidance back in 2016 has been deciphering whether the developer is a business...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 October 9, 2019, the Office of Inspector General (OIG) released proposed changes to the regulations interpreting the federal Anti-Kickback Statute (AKS). On the same day, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services...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
On April 18, 2019, the Department of Health & Human Services Office for Civil Rights (OCR) issued five new FAQs addressing the applicability of HIPAA to the use of software applications (apps) by individuals to receive health...more
On Feb. 11, 2019, two Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) agencies, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), released...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
The 21st Century Cures Act encourages biomedical research investment and facilitates innovation review and approval processes, but also serves as a vehicle for a wide variety of other health-related measures, including...more
INTRODUCTION - Digital health—the intersection of health care related software applications, analytical tools, medical device technology and electronic data assets that are enabled and achieved through the use of the...more
The US Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights recently posted guidance clarifying that a business associate such as an information technology vendor generally may not block or terminate access by a...more
On January 20, 2016 the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP Committee) released a bipartisan discussion draft of a bill that would modify how the federal government regulates health information...more
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) recently finalized the first version of its interoperability roadmap, Connecting Health and Care for the Nation: A Shared Nationwide...more
In an alert published October 6, 2015, the OIG reminded the public that “information blocking”—generally described as individuals or entities knowingly and unreasonably interfering with the exchange or use of electronic...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
On March 20, 2015, CMS and the HHS Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) released proposed rules regarding Stage 3 of the Medicare and Medicaid Electronic Health Records (EHRs) Incentive...more