Compliance & Legal
The Interoperability and Patient Access final rule includes a section that modifies the Medicare Conditions of Participation that introduces patient event notifications. The hospital has new tech at the ready.
The state enacted a law in January requiring physicians – rather than healthcare clinic staff – to be present when a patient takes abortion-inducing medication.
An eye care practice reported that an unauthorized individual had gained access to an employee's work email in January.
The waivers on some virtual care restrictions are likely to be lifted in the near future – but providers have some options.
As he focuses on shoring up data-sharing resiliency and ensuring that new IT initiatives bake in SDOH as a "fundamental design criterion," the new national coordinator also reminded people about an important April 5 start date.
Image sharing is finally advancing away from CD-ROMs and toward image-enabled personal health records, say Dr. David Mendelson, vice chair of radiology IT at Mount Sinai, and Dave Cassel, executive director of Carequality.
The API is aimed at giving healthcare app developers and clinical researchers a simple way to manage consent regarding health data use.
OCR says it anticipates a high degree of public interest because the HIPAA Privacy Rule affects nearly anyone.
Its new DSaaS collaboration with AWS promises help with scalable analytics, helping healthcare organizations gain ground with pop health projects by offering insights into social determinants of health.
Its Ransomware Resource Center offers free tools to help healthcare IT pros "better prepare for, respond to, and recover from ransomware attacks."