Provides Documents for Updating Existing HIPAA Policies The American Medical Association (AMA) announced it is offering a new toolkit to help physicians navigate the sweeping…
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Omnibus Final Rule and Stakeholder Considerations The HIPAA Omnibus final rule enhances a patient’s privacy protections, provides individuals new rights to their personal health information,…
Application of EHR Payment Incentives for Providers Not Receiving Other Incentive Payments Advancing the adoption of certified electronic health records (EHRs) for long-term, and post…
Webinars Offer Guidance to Small Healthcare Providers on Implementing HIPAA Omnibus The Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI) is a non-profit organization established in 1991…
MITECH Act Reintroduced to Expand Medicaid EHR Incentive Program Last week lawmakers reintroduced efforts to expand meaningful use incentive payments to certain clinics and safetey-net providers…
Federal financial support for HIT drives system change; proportion of hospitals with EHRs triples since 2010. Driven by major federal investments in health information technology…
Supports Key Hardship Exemptions to Medicare EHR Incentives In March of this year, Republican Representative Diane Black of Tennessee introduced a new bill seeking to…
Argue Delay or Postponement of EHR Incentives Program Too Costly In April a group of six Republican Senators released a public letter questioning just how and where…
Senators Seek to Re-examine CMS, ONC Decisions On Health IT Advancement Ahead of today’s Congressional hearing on Health and Human Services (HHS) proposed 2014 budget,…