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Healthcare Providers Beware: Finalized Disincentives Sharpen the Teeth of Information Blocking Rule

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On June 24, 2024, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued the 21st...more

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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

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HHS Is Primed to Enforce Information Blocking Conduct

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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

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Substance Use Disorder Confidentiality Regulations Modified to Align with HIPAA

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After more than a year since the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) and Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) issued the proposed changes to the...more

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The Information Blocking Rule: A Summary of Proposed Amendments

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Healthcare providers and other regulated entities should take note of proposed changes to the Information Blocking Rule. If enacted, the revised regulations would mark the first substantive update to the rule since it went...more

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ONC Proposes Updates to Information Blocking Regulations

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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' (HHS) Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) on April 11, 2023, released a Notice of Proposed Rule Making called the Health Data,...more

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

[Webinar] The Path Forward After the Interoperability and Information Blocking Rules: Successes, Challenges and the Road Ahead -...

It has been two years since the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and Office for the National Coordinator of Health Information Technology (ONC) Final Rules on Interoperability and Information Blocking took...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Report on Patient Privacy Volume 23, Number 2. ONC’s Tripathi: HIPAA Doesn’t Impede Sharing, Requirements Under Info Blocking...

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

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

[Virtual Event] San Francisco Regional Healthcare Compliance Conference - December 2nd, 8:25 am - 4:30 pm PST

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

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Patient information access automated with the Cures Act

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

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ONC Publishes Report, Commentary on Information Blocking Rule Claims Trends

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) published noteworthy information blocking claim submission trends to date in its recent Information Blocking Claims: By the Numbers post on the...more

Epstein Becker & Green

Podcast: Interoperability: The Provider Perspective - Diagnosing Health Care

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One of the long-term goals of the interoperability and information-blocking rules is to give health care providers a much more comprehensive view of a patient’s entire continuum of care. In this episode, Andrea Darby, the...more

Arnall Golden Gregory LLP

AGG Talks: Technology - In the Balance: Interoperability and Security

Our podcast series features AGG attorneys and guests discussing challenges they’ve encountered when assisting clients on business and legal issues related to the Technology industry. While all topics will have a legal...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Report on Patient Privacy Volume 20, Number 11. Privacy Briefs: November 2020

Report on Patient Privacy 20, no. 11 (November 2020) - HHS Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) for Health Information Technology (ONC) is giving health care organizations more time to meet new rules on information...more

Robinson+Cole Health Law Diagnosis

HHS Finalizes Joint Rules on Electronic Health Record Interoperability and Access

On March 9, 2020, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced final rules seeking to give patients more access to, and control of, their health data. The final rules were issued by the Office of the National...more

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Telemedicine Comes of Age: OIG is Prosecuting Telehealth Fraud

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You can now tell that telemedicine is a mature industry, because it has achieved enough critical mass that the fraud has started and the OIG is beginning to prosecute. There is a lag time between when the cash flow and profit...more

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Proposed New Rules Submitted to OMB on Information Blocking

On September 17, 2018, the federal Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) submitted proposed new rules to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), entitled, “21st Century Cures Act:...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

FTC, ONC, OCR and FDA release online tool for mobile health app developers

While attending the International Association of Privacy Professionals annual global event, and listening to Chairwoman Edith Ramirez discuss the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) concerns about consumer privacy, the FTC, the...more

Alston & Bird

A&B Healthcare Week in Review

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I. REGULATIONS, NOTICES, & GUIDANCE - On February 24, 2016, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a guidance entitled, “Special Enrollment Confirmation Process” that will enhance program integrity...more

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Also In the News - Data, Privacy, & Security Practice Report - May 2015

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ONC Releases Updated Guide To Privacy And Security of Electronic Health Information ? The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (“ONC”) recently released Version 2.0 of the Guide to Privacy and...more

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Blog: Updated Guide to Privacy and Security of Electronic Information Released by ONC and OCR

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The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) in collaboration with the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) recently released its new updated guidance for the privacy and security of electronic...more

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National Roadmap for Health Data Sharing: FTC Advocates Preservation of Privacy and Competition

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On April 1, 2015, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC), which assists with the coordination of federal policy on data sharing objectives and standards, issued its Shared Nationwide...more

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