Of the 421 hacking/IT incidents and unauthorized access/disclosure incidents attributed to healthcare providers across the United States reported to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services this year, the top 15 data breaches…
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The Department of Health and Human Services and the Office for Civil Rights have announced they will be soliciting comments on a proposal to modify the Security Standards for the Protection of Electronic Protected…
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Whether it’s a “reusable NLP pipeline for clinical narratives preprocessing and characterization,” an exploration focused on “evaluating Generative AI for polio containment” – or any number of other healthcare-focused applications large and small –…
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The US Department of Health and Human Services recently launched the National Healthcare Safety Dashboard that tracks patient and workforce harm. The goal is to monitor patient safety indicators so that improvement can result….
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The eHealth Exchange said that by designating it as its Qualified Health Information Network, the Indian Health Service is now exchanging health data under the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement.WHY IT MATTERS
While most…
Once again, organizations across the healthcare industry are appealing to Congressional leaders to extend telehealth flexibilities beyond the December 31 deadline, imploring Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., Senate…
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In examining how the Office of Civil Rights administered its periodic Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act audit program from January 2016 through December 2020, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office…
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Introduction
Hospital price transparency laws were introduced with the goal of making healthcare costs more predictable, increasing competition, and ideally reducing prices. Three years after the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) implemented these…
The Department of Health and Human Services has filed proposed modifications to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 security rule to strengthen the cybersecurity of electronic protected health information with the…
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Introduction
To improve access to preventive and reproductive healthcare, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has proposed a rule to expand coverage for birth control and pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP). The proposed rule…
