Leveraging Technology
In the February 15 Federal Register, the Food and Drug Administration \(FDA\) released a final regulation on how it will regulate ")medical device data systems") \(MDDS\).
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology \(ONC\) on July 28 in the Federal Register published a final rule establishing an initial set of standards, implementation specifications, and certification criteria for electronic health record \(EHR\) technology.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services \(CMS\) on July 28 published a final rule defining ")meaningful use") of electronic health records \(EHRs\). At the same time, the Office of the National Coordinator \(ONC\) for Health Information Technology issued a final rule that sets…
The Department of Health and Human Services \(HHS\) in the July 14 Federal Register proposed certain modifications to the privacy, security and enforcement requirements of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 \(HIPAA\), largely to implement changes necessitated by the…
On June 24, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology \(ONC\) published in the Federal Register a final rule establishing a temporary certification program for health information technology. The rule, available at http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2010/pdf/2010-14999.pdf…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services \(CMS\) on Jan. 13 published a proposed definition of ")meaningful use") of electronic health records \(EHRs\). This rule would be used to determine which hospitals are eligible for health information technology \(HIT\) incentive payments under…
The HHS recently released an interim final rule updating the enforcement rule for the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 \(HIPAA\). These updates were necessitated by the passage of the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act \(HITECH\).
The Department of Health and Human Services \(HHS\) published in the August 24 Federal Register its interim final rule implementing the Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health \(HITECH\) Act's breach notification requirements.
Since President Obama on February 17 signed into law the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act \(ARRA\), which provides approximately 9 billion in funding to help hospitals and physicians adopt health information technology \(HIT\), we have received numerous inquiries from AHA members about how…
On January 15, the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services released a final rule modifying the medical data code set standards and adopting ICD-10-CM for coding of patient diagnoses and ICD-10-PCS for coding of hospital procedures.