By Ann Triebsch and Kathie McDonald-McClure
Following our blog post on December 11, 2013 about Part One of a report from the Office of the Inspector General for the United States Department of Health and Human Services (OIG) about fraud safeguards in electronic health records (EHRs), the OIG recently issued Part Two of its report. Dated January ...
On Friday, February 7, 2014, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced an extension until 11:59 pm on March 31, 2014 for Eligible Professionals to submit their 2013 EHR Meaningful Use (MU) attestation. In addition, Eligible Hospitals that had trouble submitting their 2013 MU attestation may be able to retroactively ...
by Kathie McDonald-McClure and Elizabeth O'Keeffe
As we have previously reported on the Wyatt HITECH Law blog on September 14, 2013 and September 23, 2011, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has had in the works, for over two years now, revisions to the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Act of 1988 (CLIA) regulations concerning whether ...
by Margaret Young Levi and Roz Cordini
Amidst concerns that physicians and other providers are slow to adopt electronic health record (EHR) systems and be "meaningful users" of health information technology, just before the New Year, the federal government extended two programs that permit hospitals and other health care providers as well ...
by Dan Soldato
Data breaches, particularly of consumer information and other private information, are becoming an increasing public concern and a headline in the daily news. We regularly hear about incidents in which electronically stored customer information is lost by or stolen from businesses, including health care companies ...
The Electronic Health Records (EHR) Incentive Program was implemented by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) pursuant to the Health Information Technology for Clinical and Economic Health Act of 2009 (HITECH). This Program provides incentive payments to Eligible Hospitals, Critical Access Hospitals and Eligible ...
Welcome to our newest contributing author, Elizabeth O'Keeffe, who prepared the following post
E-health, e-patients, social media, telehealth, telemedicine, mobile health care – what does it all mean to you as a patient? As an employee? As a CEO? “Telehealth” is booming and could substantially disrupt the old-fashioned health care ...
Those who dwell in the world of health care privacy and security know well that the Office of Civil Rights (OCR) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is the federal agency that issues the regulations, provides guidance and ultimately enforces the complex requirements of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act ...
UPDATE: 2/10/2014. On Friday 2/7/2014, CMS announced an extension until March 31, 2014 for Eligible Professionals to submit their 2013 EHR Meaningful Use (MU) attestation. In addition, Eligible Hospitals that had trouble submitting their 2013 MU attestation may be able to retroactively submit their MU attestation to avoid the 2015 ...