Monitoring Legal Developments Relating to the Privacy and Security of Health Information
A patient asks her doctor to send her test results to an app the patient has downloaded on her phone. The doctor worries that the app is not secure and that the patient might not understand the security risks. What should the doctor do?
Covered entity health care providers and their business associates likely need…
Part 2
Money talks.
In other words, offering financial incentives is one way to effect behavior change. It seems to have worked in getting providers to adopt and use health IT in everyday practice, both in New Jersey and nationally.
As explained by ONC in its October 2014 “…
When I need to travel from the southern part of NJ to northern NJ, I often rely on my car or phone GPS and the relative ease and simplicity of the NJ Turnpike. If I needed my southern NJ physician to share information with my northern NJ physician, I might be surprised to learn that…
Health-related technology has developed light-years faster than health information privacy and security protection laws and policies, and consumers can find new mobile health applications for a wide range of purposes ranging from diabetes management to mole or rash evaluation to fitness tracking. Smart mobile app developers wondering when and how HIPAA privacy and security requirements…
LabMD is not the only company that has tried to buck the FTC’s assertion of authority over data security breaches. Wyndham Worldwide Corp. has spent the past year contesting the FTC’s authority to pursue enforcement actions based upon companies’ alleged “unfair” or “unreasonable” data security practices. On Monday, April 7, 2014, the United States District…
Here’s the official 10th tip to help you comply with today’s Omnibus Rule deadline. However, since I had to make TIP TWO into TIPs TWO through SEVEN when I realized my time had was running out, I will continue to blog a few more tips over the coming weeks. I expect that at least…
Unless the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) makes another last-minute, litigation-inspired decision to delay the September 23, 2013 compliance date, we’re well into the 10-day countdown for compliance with most of the Omnibus Rule requirements. Here’s “TIP TWO” (however, since I’ve listed 6 specific tips here, I may need to count these as…
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