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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
On July 1, 2024, 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) published a final rule in...more
Recently, the United States Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”), Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”), and Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (“ONC”) announced the...more
On June 17, CMS and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) issued a final rule implementing new standards for e-prescribing under Medicare Part D. ...more
Preventing discrimination and bias in connection with the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in health care are among the principal current focuses of U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and were included in...more
The Health Data, Technology, and Interoperability: Certification Program Updates, Algorithm Transparency, and Information Sharing (HTI-1) final rule, issued by the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of...more
On Monday, March 11, 2024, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology’s (ONC) Health Data, Technology, and Interoperability: Certification Program Updates, Algorithm Transparency, and Information...more
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' (HHS) Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) published its Health Data, Technology, and Interoperability: Certification Program Updates,...more
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
On October 30, 2023, the Biden administration issued Executive Order 14110 on the Safe, Secure and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence (the “Executive Order”). As detailed in our previously published...more
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued the CMS Interoperability and Prior Authorization Final Rule (Final Rule) on Jan. 17, 2024. The agency proposed the rule in December 2022 (See Holland & Knight's...more
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 Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) was tasked with coordinating efforts to regulate artificial intelligence (AI) in health care under the November 2023 Executive Order on the Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy...more
On Oct. 30, President Biden signed an executive order calling for a coordinated government approach to establish new safeguards for AI safety and security in healthcare. In response to the executive order, on Dec. 14 the...more
On December 13, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC), which is part of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), finalized changes to the information blocking rules by...more
On December 13, 2023, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) issued its final rule entitled “Health Data, Technology, and Interoperability: Certification Program Updates, Algorithm...more
On September 1, the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (HHS-OIG) will begin enforcing information blocking penalties against certain health care information technology (IT) actors as published...more
A final rule published on July 3, 2023, empowers the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) to impose civil monetary penalties (CMP) of up to $1 million for unlawful acts of...more
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) announced its final rule (the Enforcement Rule) implementing the information blocking penalties created by the 21st Century Cures Act...more
Though there has been much speculation and commentary among industry stakeholders, the Office of Inspector General (OIG) and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) have not yet begun...more
On July 3, 2023, OIG published its final enforcement rule (the OIG Rule) permitting imposition of civil monetary penalties (CMPs) for certain actors that engage in information blocking in violation of the information blocking...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
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
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