Posts from July 2010.

The following statement was recently posted on the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services' Office of Civil Rights website:  

"The Interim Final Rule for Breach Notification for Unsecured Protected Health Information, issued pursuant to the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act, was published in ...

On Thursday, July 22, 2010, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) held a publicly available teleconference to give an overview of the 800+ page Final Rule on Meaningful Use (MU) under the HITECH Act, as well as an overview of the Final and Proposed Rules on Temporary & Permanent Certification Program and the Final Rule on ...

On July 15, 2010, the Federal Communications Commission announced that it would expand investment in broadband for medically underserved communities. This $400 million annual investment is expected to help improve medical care and reduce health care costs by enabling the development of improved health IT infrastructures and solutions in ...

Update: On December 29, 2010, HHS published in the Federal Register a "Correcting Amendment" to its Final Rule on Meaningful Use, which can be viewed here.

HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius wasted no time in putting the brand new CMS Director to work on July 13, 2010, in announcing the release of two rules under the Health Information Technology ...

UPDATE: Watch the LIVE webcast here.

According to HealthcareIT News, federal officials have announced that, on Tuesday morning, July 13, 2010, at 10:00 am EST, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) and the Office of National Coordinator (ONC) will release the final rule on making a "meaningful use" of electronic health records under the ...

HHS Office of Civil Rights updates its breach notification webpage, which includes reports of 107 breach incidents involving protected health information. Theft of laptops, desktop computers, portable devices and network servers ranks #1.
On Thursday, July 8, 2010, the United States Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) held a press briefing to announce "significant modifications" through proposed rulemaking to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) pursuant to the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act of ...

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