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Health Law Diagnosed returns! We asked the Health Law team to share their health law–focused resolutions for 2022 and discuss how they are helping clients — and colleagues — navigate the continued challenges and opportunities of the current era.

Important updates include new interoperability and information blocking program criteria; new program KPI requirementsWEST HARTFORD, CT / ACCESSWIRE / January 5, 2022 / The Electronic Healthcare Network

While the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) issued the 21st Century Cures Act; Interoperability, Information Blocking, and the ONC Health IT Certification Program...

While the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) issued the 21st Century Cures Act; Interoperability, Information Blocking, and the ONC Health IT...

While the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology ONC issued the 21st Century Cures Act; Interoperability, Information Blocking, and the ONC Health IT Certification Program back in May 2020, entities are still parsing out compliance strategies.

It’s not too late for all of us to re-think health IT and bring Hippocrates’ famous quote to life: “Wherever the art of Medicine is loved, there is also a love of Humanity.”

Yelena Greenberg is a health care attorney at Robinson Cole law firm who advises hospitals, academic medical centers, nursing homes, physician groups, and university health centers and clinical programs on a broad range of health law issues.

Doctors worry patients will misconstrue language or be psychologically harmed without guidance

To say that 2020--and now, 2021—was a year of growth would be a vast understatement. The world is forever changed, day-to-day life is forever changed, and nowhere is this more prevalent than in health care.

Thursday, July 22, 2021 Since the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) Privacy Rule became effective in 2003, it generally required covered entities to provide patients timely access to their medical records. Of course, state health laws also have provided similar rights to patients regarding their records, some more and some less stringent than HIPAA. However, concerns over the level of patient access to records are driving increased emphasis, heightene...