Privacy attorney David Holtzman of consultancy HITprivacy
Look for the Biden administration to put health data privacy and security on the front burner next year.
As attorney general for California, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Designate Xavier Becerra developed a track record as a proponent of consumer privacy initiatives. Most recently, his office developed and implemented the regulations for the roll-out of the California Consumer Privacy Act. He also took an active role in new laws addressing privacy and security aspects for direct-to-consumer genetic testing and testing companies.
Be on the lookout for action by the incoming HHS secretary to address the calls by some for stronger consumer privacy and security standards.
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Tuesday, December 22, 2020
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On November 20, 2020, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and Office of Inspector General released final rules amending the regulations to the Stark Law and the Anti-Kickback Statute and Beneficiary Inducement Civil Monetary Penalty Law. As part of these final rules, the agencies liberalized the requirements under the existing exception and safe harbor for donations of electronic health record items and services, and created a new exception and safe harbor to allow donations of cybersecurity technology and related services.
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On November 20, 2020, the US Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) released final rules amending the regulations to the physician self-referral law (Stark Law) (Stark Rule) and the Anti-Kickback Statute (AKS) and Beneficiary Inducement Civil Monetary Penalty Law (collectively, AKS Rule) in connection with HHS’s Regulatory Sprint to Coordinated Care. As part of the Stark Rule and the AKS
Jeremy Grant of Venable and Rebecca Archambault of Blue Cross Blue Shield
The security challenges presented by the COVID-19 pandemic, including managing a remote workforce, point to the need to prioritize identity management, say Rebecca Archambault of Blue Cross Blue Shield and Jeremy Grant of the law firm Venable.
”Put identity is at the center of your cybersecurity program. Make sure identity is sitting in the middle, and not at the outside of it,” Archambault says.
“Make sure your security team is involved in all of your implementations and all of your maintenance,” she says in a video interview with Information Security Media Group. ”Remember that every application, every piece of infrastructure [contains] an identity and access component. Anytime you’re onboarding new apps or changing existing apps, there is an identity piece of that. So identity teams need to be at the center of everything.”
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Diameter Health gains $18M in new funding
With the new funds, the health data optimization and interoperability company will invest in product development. The latest funding round was led by Centene Corp.
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Diameter Health, a company focused on health data optimization and interoperability, has raised $18 million in a Series B funding round. Managed care organization Centene Corp. led the new financing round.
Diameter Health cleans and enriches health data, Eric Rosow, CEO of the company, said in an email. The company’s technology automatically ingests raw health information that is, poorly formed, unstructured or incorrectly coded data from EHRs and other data systems which it then normalizes, enriches, reorganizes and summarizes. It also takes out duplicate data.