Posts from February 2012.
On Thursday, February 23, 2012, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), pursuant to the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act, released a 455-page Proposed Rule specifying the Stage 2 criteria that eligible professionals (EPs), eligible hospitals and critical access hospitals ...
The deadline is quickly approaching for mandatory data breach reporting to the United States Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) under the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH Act). Covered entities must report data breaches involving less than 500 individuals to HHS within 60 days following ...