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Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

[Event] Healthcare Privacy Compliance Academy - December 9th - 12th, San Diego, CA

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

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

[Event] Healthcare Privacy Compliance Academy - November 18th - 21st, Boston, MA

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

BakerHostetler

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

Holland & Knight LLP

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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Reproductive Healthcare Privacy Rule Brings New Requirements for All Providers

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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

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

[Event] Healthcare Privacy Compliance Academy - July 15th - 18th, Charlotte, NC

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

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

[Event] Healthcare Privacy Compliance Academy - May 6th - 9th, San Antonio, TX

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

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

[Event] Healthcare Privacy Compliance Academy - February 26th - 29th, Phoenix, AZ

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

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

[Event] Healthcare Privacy Compliance Academy - October 16th - 19th, San Francisco, CA

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

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

Holland & Knight LLP

EHI Under the Information Blocking Rule Set to Expand

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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

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

Mintz - Health Care Viewpoints

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

Epstein Becker & Green

Podcast–Interoperability: How Far We’ve Come and Where We’re Going - Diagnosing Health Care

The 21st Century Cures Act kicked off a major paradigm shift in the approach to accessing and sharing patient data. How will the health care industry adapt to this new way of thinking? On this episode of Diagnosing Health...more

Jackson Lewis P.C.

Information Blocking And HIPAA’s Right To Access: Compliance Burdens For Healthcare Providers

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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

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

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

[Webinar] Identifying and Remediating Information Blocking Practices - October 15th, 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm CDT

Learning Objectives: - Understand 21st Century Cures information blocking regulations and how they fit with other health information laws - Learn about the elements of information blocking and eight exceptions - Create...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

Tucker Arensberg, P.C.

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

McDermott Will & Emery

HHS Releases Draft Federal Health IT Strategic Plan for 2020-2025

The Department of Health and Human Services released its draft 2020-2025 Federal Health IT Strategic Plan for public comment. This article outlines the goals of the plan, as well as challenges in healthcare that ONC hopes the...more

King & Spalding

CMS Requests Comments on Proposal to Require Providers to Disclose Price Information

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On March 4, 2019, HHS published a proposed rule, which includes a request for public comment on the implications of requiring providers to make public disclosures of price information for the services they perform. The 21st...more

Burns & Levinson LLP

Healthcare and Innovators, Take Note: The HIPAA Privacy RFI Can Benefit You

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This past Friday, the Office of Civil Rights within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services published a formal Request for Information on Modifying HIPAA Rules to Improve Coordinated Care. The RFI’s publication...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

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

Harris Beach PLLC

OCR Issues Guidance on the Use of HIPAA Authorizations for Research

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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

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