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Electronic Reportable Laboratory Result Reporting. "Requiring hospitals to report these four measures would help to prepare public health agencies to respond to future health threats and a long-term COVID-19 recovery by strengthening public health functions, including early warning surveillance, case surveillance and vaccine uptake, which will increase the information available to help hospitals better serve their patients," said CMS officials. The new requirements would enable nationwide syndromic surveillance that could help provide early notices of emerging disease outbreaks, according to ...

OVERVIEW On December 10, 2020, the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) with proposed modifications to the Standards for the Privacy of Individually Identifiable Health Information (Privacy Rule) adopted under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 and the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (collectively, HIPAA). The proposed modifications support individuals’ engagement in their care, remove barriers to coordinated care and reduce regulatory burde...

Individual Right of Access The NPRM would make several changes to individuals’ Privacy Rule right to inspect and obtain copies of their protected health information (PHI) maintained in a designated record set. The proposed changes would: Expand the methods that individuals may use when inspecting their health information to include the ability to take notes, videos and photographs. Require covered entity health care providers to allow patients to review PHI upon request that is readily available at the point of care in conjunction with a health care appointment. Reduce the time limit for co...