NOTE: On February 18, 2010, we posted an article about what to do with paper medical records when converting to an electronic health record (EHR). To date, this has been the most popular article on the HITECH Law Blog. We decided to re-review the topic, update it, and repost it. Actually, not much has changed in the way of the law applicable to this ...
by Ann F. Triebsch
As we indicated in a posting last October and in a more recent August post , audits are now underway to verify that providers who received incentive monies from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) under the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act for implementation of a ...
More and more, health care providers are employing laptops, tablets, smartphones and other portable electronic devices in their work. And more and more, laptops and other portable electronic devices are involved in breaches of patient data. According to the Office of Civil Rights (OCR) website, 265 (or 39%) of the 674 total data breaches ...
Late last week the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) of the United States Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) announced a delay in its enforcement of the requirement that certain laboratories revise their notices of privacy practices (NPPs).
As we have previously posted on the HITECH Law Blog, HHS has in the works revisions to the Clinical ...
by Ann F. Triebsch
We’ve all heard about HIPAA privacy breaches until we think there couldn’t be anything else to worry about. Think again—the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is prosecuting privacy breaches in the health care industry as a violation of Section 5 of the FTC Act. The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of ...