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…
The Uncomfortable Truth About Healthcare DataBy Mike Green
Mike Green, MBA is chief information security officer of Availity.
Cyberattacks have become an all-too-common occurrence, with no industry immune from their effects. In healthcare, the stakes…
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Providence Medical Institute, a Southern California-based physician services division of the seven-state Providence health system, will pay a $240,000 civil monetary penalty to settle potential HIPAA violations after a ransomware attack.WHY IT MATTERSThe U.S….
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New federal requirements on wireless carriers could help address the nation’s mental health crisis and improve local suicide prevention response and patient care, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services said in an…
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This past summer, the U.S. Supreme Court, with its Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo decision, put an end to the principle that federal courts should defer to federal regulatory agencies’ expertise when deciding on ambiguous statutes.The…
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Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. Because there’s…
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In less than 24 hours this week, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services filed an appeal in American Hospital Association v. Becerra – a lawsuit that sought to bar enforcement of an…
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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on Thursday announced new funding to help improve the use and maintenance of artificial intelligence-enabled medical devices.Research has shown that machine learning models used in clinical…
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