ONC Sells Successes of Health IT Adoption to Congress in Annual Report
ONC Sells Successes of Health IT Adoption to Congress in Annual Report The ONC released its second annual report on the adoption of health IT this past June. The report provides a snapshot of the...
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OCR Permits HIPAA BAs to Share COVID19-related PHI Directly for Public Health...
On April 2nd, HHS announced a new “Notification of Enforcement Discretion Under HIPAA to Allow Uses and Disclosures of PHI by Business Associates for Public Health and Health Oversight Activities in...
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Changes on the Horizon for Part 2 Confidentiality Regulations
As part of its comprehensive COVID-19 response, Congress quietly passed through changes to the federal drug and alcohol confidentiality framework known as “Part 2” under the CARES Act, enacted on March...
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New HHS Guidance on Laboratory COVID-19 Data Reporting Recognizes Valuable...
Late last week, HHS published new Guidance that specifies what additional data must be reported by laboratories along with COVID-19 test results. Reporting of certain data elements by laboratories are...
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ONC Just Announced a New HIE Funding Opportunity for HIE Services Benefiting...
The award will allocate $2.5M to fund up to 5 awards (in the amount of up to $500K EACH) with a period of performance of up to 2 years in the form of cooperative agreements with funding contingent upon...
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OCR Publishes New Guidance on Sharing PHI through HIEs for Public Health...
Last Friday, the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) issued new Guidance on how HIPAA permits covered entities and their business associates to use health information exchanges (HIEs) to disclose PHI for the...
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Our Stockings are Stuffed with Compliance Tools
Seasons Greetings to all of our readers! First, we want to wish you and yours a holiday season filled with health, happiness and hope! We also want to thank you all for continuing to make Legal HIE...
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A Look Ahead to 2021
The new year has much in store for electronic health information exchange compliance! Today's post provides an overview of anticipated changes to the health information regulatory landscape in 2021,...
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CMS Releases Hospital COP Event Notification FAQs; Interpretive Guidance
On May 1, modifications to the Medicare Conditions of Participation (“CoPs”) went into effect, requiring certain electronic event notifications for admissions, discharges and transfers (“ADTs”) to and...
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