Compliance & Legal

Not only are the HHS information blocking disincentives too steep, but they could also interrupt accountable care organizations' shift to value-based care, the organizations argue. Meanwhile, the EHR Association says the regs are "too narrowly focused."

Final rule disincentives include hospitals not being able to earn three quarters of the annual market basket increase.

The employee, reportedly an executive who was an interim medical director, allegedly misrepresented her qualifications.

Also, South Australia is introducing free virtual mental health support for young people.

The telemedicine company's clinical president and its founder and CEO allegedly participated in a scheme to profit from providing easy access to Adderall for no valid medical purpose.  

Sean Sullivan, a partner at Alston & Bird, predicts more clarity on reasonable fees and exceptions, details on sensitive information sharing, and rules about public health IT certification in revised interoperability rules that may drop in June.  

A long-requested update in Smart CRM stores protected data, giving healthcare organizations more integrated patient information to streamline patient engagement efforts.

UCSF Health and the university's clinical informatics division plan to develop a real-time and automated artificial intelligence monitoring platform for clinical care.

Moving legacy healthcare data into storage is a complex process that involves scanning for malware and retaining regulatory compliance and access, explains Tom Liddell, CEO of Harmony Healthcare IT.  

Healthcare organizations with fewer resources could use the new free and open-source tools to validate any artificial intelligence model and monitor its ongoing performance. "This is your cookbook," says Corey Miller, Epic's VP of R&D.