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To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: The applicability date for the Information Blocking regulations in the ONC Cures Act Final Rule was set as November 2, 2020, but was subsequently adjusted in the ONC Interim Final Rule to April 5, 2021, in recognition of the significant demands that COVID-19 has placed on health care providers. With the pandemic unabated, the American Hospital Association recently urged the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Office of th...

Feb 19, 2021 8:05am In March 2020, the Trump administration released widely anticipated rules that prohibit information sharing and will change how providers, insurers and patients exchange health data. (everythingpossible/GettyImages) New data-sharing regulations will soon go into effect that lay the groundwork for patients to have easier access to their health information. When will patients start to see the benefits of these new mandates? New federal health IT leader Micky Tripathi, Ph.D.,...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: On November 4, 2020, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) published an Interim Final Rule with Comment Period (IFC) that delays compliance dates necessary to meet certain requirements related to information blocking initially finalized in the ONC Cures Act Final Rule (Final Rule) in March of 2020. The Final Rule implemented health IT provisions enacted under the 21 st Century Cures Act (the Cu...

Share this article Share this article NEW YORK, Jan. 29, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- The Sequoia Projects Interoperability Matters Information Blocking Workgroup (IBWG) has invited Jennifer Blumenthal, CEO and co-founder of OneRecord, to join their newly launched Healthcare Providers Subgroup. OneRecords CEO, Jennifer Blumenthal, joins the Sequoia Projects Interoperability Matters Information Blocking Workgroup. The Sequoia Project, a non-profit dedicated to solving health IT interoperability for th...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: On January 28, 2021, privacy professionals around the world will celebrate Data Privacy Day. This year, we decided to mark the occasion by gathering our team’s thoughts and expectations on what we expect to be the biggest privacy law stories in 2021 and beyond. Last year we wrote a similar article, attempting to predict how the privacy landscape would unfold in 2020. We got some things right (e.g., the emergence of CCPA 2.0). But, l...

Our Services are designed to: Accelerate the evolution of healthcare systems (EHR, PMS, PHM, RCM, Lab info systems and more) Solve interoperability challenges to facilitate seamless access to patient health information. Enable digitization through cloud services, data analytics, RPA, mobile app development and application testing. The Cures Act Final Rule – Introducing Radical Changes to US Healthcare The Cures Act Final Rule, released in May 2020, unleashed the latest regulatory mandates...

Jan 20, 2021 4:55pm An expert on interoperability, privacy and technology standards, Micky Tripathi most recently served as chief strategy officer at Arcadia, a population health management solutions company. (everythingpossible/GettyImages) Micky Tripathi, Ph.D., a recognized name in the health tech world, has been tapped as the new national coordinator for health IT under President Joe Bidens administration. The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) posted leadership changes on it...

Tuesday, January 19, 2021 Much changed in the privacy law landscape in 2020, including a heightened focus on the use and disclosure of health information. As 2021 gets underway, businesses should be aware of the key legislative and regulatory changes in health data privacy that were teed up at the close of 2020, and which may now or soon affect them. HIPAA Proposed Rulemaking The Office for Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released proposed chan...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: On 2 December 2020, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published a Notice of Final Rulemaking in the Federal Register (Final Rule), 1 modifying the regulations implementing the federal physician self-referral law (the Stark Law). 2 In the Final Rule, CMS largely finalizes many of the proposals set forth in the Proposed Rulemaking issued on 17 October 2019 (Proposed Rule), 3 with certain modifications. CMS has indicate...