Covered entities beware: a timing pitfall lurks within the recently adopted rules prohibiting information blocking. We have posted about OCR’s “Right to Access Initiative” and numerous enforcement actions taken to
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“I Have an App for That”: ONC’s Information Blocking Rule and HIPAA Access Rights
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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…
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Health Information Technology in NJ – Where Are We Now?
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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…
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Health Information Technology in NJ – Where Are We Now?
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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…
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Basic HIPAA Question for Mobile Health Application Developers: What Are You?
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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…
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Wild West Data Breach Sheriff Wins a Round Back East
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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…
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Ten Days, Ten Tips – Countdown to Omnibus Rule Compliance #10
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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…
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Ten Days, Ten Tips – Countdown to Omnibus Rule Compliance #2
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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…
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