Matthew Fisher

Health IT Appointments, Hires and Who’s Hiring

Latest announcements made from companies and organizations on hiring and appointments include PatientBond, HD Medical, Doctor Evidence, eHealth Technologies, Lumeon, BehaVR, Iora Health, Truveris, TimelyMD, CMS, AZHealthCurrent, UHIN, & Indiana HIE.


Reminder, Provide Access to Data

By Matt Fisher – The Office for Civil Rights started 2021 off with another settlement of alleged non-compliance with the HIPAA right of access. The settlement, as noted by OCR, is the 14th right of access settlement since OCR began its targeted focus on this issue in late 2019.


HIPAA Progress: Incremental or By a Leap?

By Matt Fisher – After a bit longer of a delay than was initially expected, the Department of Health and Human Services released a proposed rule to change pieces of HIPAA. The proposed rule is the outcome from a request for information that closed in February of 2019, where HHS posed a number of questions mostly focused on how HIPAA interacts with value based care goals.