I’ve been impressed with everything that the various organizations within HHS have done to try and help healthcare organizations deal with the pandemic. ...
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The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced a consumer fraud settlement against a company that displayed a ‘HIPAA Compliant’ seal on its website. After a data...
Most hospitals are familiar with the health cost transparency rule that was pushed by Trump and HHS Secretary Alex Azar and is scheduled to go into effect...
Many people in the healthcare IT and HIM communities have been anticipating some changes to HIPAA coming soon. As Rita Bowen from MRO recently shared...
If you’re in the security world, you’ve no doubt seen the warning to hospitals from multiple government agencies about a specific ransomware threat...
As is no surprise to anyone, all of the organizations at HHS are releasing a wide variety of information, rules, relaxation of rules, and other changes amidst...
Looking at all of you reading all the various HHS funding options, regulatory changes, and enforcement discretions we’ve shared as part of our COVID-19...
Yesterday, CMS announced an unprecedented level of Blanket Waivers and Regulatory changes to allow healthcare organizations to better deal with the COVID-19...
Today, the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued the news that enforcement of HIPAA penalties around...
As expected, HHS together with CMS and ONC have released the 21st Century Cures Act Final rule that most people have been calling the Information Blocking rule...