Posts from February 2016.
On Friday, February 26, 2016, the Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) for Health Information Technology (HIT) announced via a blog post, that ONC will be updating the Model Privacy Notice (MPN) that, in 2011, ONC developed in concert with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) for "personal health records" (PHRs), which was the emerging ...
As of February 5, 2016, a change in the law allows certain health care providers to report the identity of an individual who is prohibited from possessing a firearm for mental health reasons to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (“NICS”). The Department of Health & Human Services (“HHS”) amended the Health Insurance ...