What's the Tea in L&E? Can You Share An Employee's Medical Info?
Podcast: Discussing Information Blocking with Eddie Williams
Podcast: Keeping an Eye on HIPAA Trends with Shannon Hartsfield
A Zero Percent Error Rate: An Inspiring Story on How to Get There
Expanded Information Block Rules Go into Effect
Podcast: Interoperability: Information Blocking Claims and Enforcement - Diagnosing Health Care
Podcast: Interoperability: Health Care's Next Disruptor Is openEHR - Diagnosing Health Care
Podcast: Interoperability: A New Vision Through openEHR - Diagnosing Health Care
Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Podcast | Episode 99: David Stefanich, Co-founder and CEO, Rymedi
Podcast: Interoperability - the Role of Health Information Exchanges - Diagnosing Health Care
Gerry Blass on Healthcare Vendor Risk Management
Hooper, Kearney and Macklin on Cutting Edge Topics in the False Claims Act
AGG Talks: Technology - In the Balance: Interoperability and Security
The New Information Blocking Rule: What It Means For Hospices
Sitting with the C-Suite: Looking Ahead to Potential Compliance Issues Due to COVID-19
From NC State to Changing the State of Health Information Networks, with Medicom Technologies’ Malcolm Benitz
Exploring Digitization of Health and Medical Data and Records Part Two
Exploring Digitization of Health and Medical Data and Records Part One
Patient Records Requests: What You Need to Know
Electronic Medical Records: Help or Hindrance?
March 26, 2025, marked a pivotal moment in the EU with the European Health Data Space Regulation, (EU) 2025/327 (“EHDS Regulation”), coming into force. The EHDS represents a transformative initiative by the European Union...more
News Briefs - Joint Employer Rule Withdrawn by National Labor Relations Board - The National Labor Relations Board withdrew its appeal of a district court ruling that enjoined its "joint employer" final rule....more
Healthcare systems are facing significant challenges in recruiting and retaining talent within the burgeoning field of behavioral health services, primarily due to competition from telehealth providers and inconsistent...more
In the wake of the Supreme Court of the United States’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization and the adoption of laws outside California that criminalize most abortions as well as gender affirming care,...more
While telemedicine visits and digital health records have brought about significant improvements in healthcare accessibility and efficiency, they also present unique challenges in the context of casualty claims and injury...more
The FTC and OCR at HHS are continuing to scrutinize the use of tracking technologies that may reveal information about a person’s health or health status. Both agencies recently sent a letter to a reported 130 hospitals and...more
Effective July 1, 2023, a new Florida law will limit certain health care providers from storing patient information offshore. CS/CS/SB 264 (Chapter 2023-33, Laws of Florida), amends the Florida Electronic Health Records...more
Report on Patient Privacy Volume 23, no 2 (February 2023) DCH Health Systems, based in Tuscaloosa, Ala., said it fired an employee in December after a routine privacy audit revealed evidence that the worker had accessed some...more
Report on Patient Privacy Volume 23, no 2 (February 2023) When Micky Tripathi’s mom was recently transferred to a rehab facility to recover from a broken hip, the hospital, “right in front of me…printed off her record,...more
The FTC is closing out 2022 with additional guidance for mobile health app developers signaling its continued interest in this industry. Since 2021, we have seen several steps from the agency demonstrating a focus on...more
The FTC recently published two new resources for complying with the Health Breach Notification Rule. The Rule requires vendors of personal health records (PHR), PHR-related entities and service providers to these entities, to...more
In this episode, Rebecca Schaefer interviews Gina Bertolini and Desiree Moore about the recent Federal Trade Commission (FTC) policy statement regarding the FTC Health Breach Notification Rule and its applicability to vendors...more
The COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting need for patient access to remote healthcare, as well as the development of contact-tracing apps, have spotlighted the importance of health-focused mobile applications (mHealth apps)....more
On September 22, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced the launch of its Digital Health Center of Excellence within the Center for Devices and Radiological Health. The FDA called this an important step toward...more
The Digital Planning Podcast is designed to educate individuals about all things digital in connection with estate planning, business planning and estate administration. Your hosts, Jennifer Zegel, Ross Bruch and Justin...more
Throughout the past year, the healthcare and life science industries experienced a proliferation of digital health innovation that challenged traditional notions of healthcare delivery and payment, as well as product...more
The headlines paint a bleak picture: “AI is here to take your job.” Automation will, undoubtedly, create a seismic shift to the workplace, this much we know. The breadth and scope of the impact, however, will vary across...more
Congress has long attempted to grapple with issues of cyber-security, both within the healthcare field, and generally in the United States. ...more
There are more than 165,000 mobile health applications available for download in Apple’s App Store or Google Play. This number will likely keep rising, and a body of federal and state regulators, including state attorneys...more
On July 19, 2016, the ONC submitted a report to Congress which suggests that health privacy regulations soon may be revised to catch up with the universe of mHealth technologies that now use and share personal health data....more
As hospitals become increasingly technologically savvy, they are looking to do more and more with their electronic health record systems. What many hospitals do not realize is that some of the functionality they are seeking...more
Venture investment in healthcare convergence technologies soared in the first half of 2012. According to a recent report from Burrill & Co, digital health, into which they group healthcare IT, mobile health and wireless...more
Furthering the use of commercial wireless networks to deliver health information, the Obama Administration recently announced its new Text4baby campaign, which sends free regular text messages with health information to...more