By Sara Heath
January 11, 2024 – HHS has finalized the last piece of the puzzle to restore the government’s process for handling complaints of conscience and religious discrimination, which the agency said will improve patient…
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ONC will host information sessions to explain the final rule. Each session will be one hour, except for the Insights Condition session which will be one hour and 15 minutes. The sessions will be…
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By Hannah Nelson
January 03, 2024 – An ONC final rule scheduled for publication on January 9, 2024, will make several updates to the ONC Health IT Certification Program to advance interoperability.
The “Health Data, Technology, and…
Welcome to our Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup. Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. We hope this gives…
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By Hannah Nelson
December 13, 2023 – The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) has finalized a rule to support health IT interoperability and artificial intelligence (AI) transparency.
The Health Data, Technology, and…
What You Should Know:
– The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) took a major step forward in healthcare data sharing and artificial intelligence (AI) transparency with the finalization of the Health Data,…
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The following is a guest article by Nick Barger, PharmD, Vice President, Product at DrFirst. This article is the second in the Healthcare Regulatory Talk series.
More regulatory churn is coming to shake up e-prescribing,…
While comments on HHS’ proposed rules on information blocking disincentives for Medicare providers aren’t due until January 2, 2024, with no set data after that for publication of a final rule after that, “the federal government…
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This week, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services finalized updates to its physician fee schedule for 2024, as well as finalized the rule for next year’s Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS).
The federal agency…
The Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General will begin enforcing information blocking penalties today, which include potential compliance violations for “acts and omissions” and penalties up to $1 million.Info blocking,…
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