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On June 11, 2014, the American Medical Association (“AMA”) approved a list of guiding principles regarding the practice of telemedicine.  The AMA’s adoption of the telemedicine guiding principles follows the trend of position statements, guidelines, and other policy statements addressing the practice of telemedicine already adopted by other medical specialty societies and state medical associations, […]

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Indiana-based Parkview Health System (“Parkview”) has agreed to settle potential violations of the HIPAA Privacy Rule with the HHS Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) by paying $800,000 and adopting a corrective action plan to address deficiencies in its HIPAA compliance program. The resolution agreement can be found here. According to the HHS press release, the […]

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Rady Children’s Hospital in San Diego announced this week that it has discovered two instances of impermissible disclosure of patient information – both disclosures arising from employees sending spreadsheets containing PHI to job applicants.  Surprisingly, Rady employees did not learn the lesson from their northern California neighbor, Stanford, which recently settled a lawsuit for $4 […]

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Not able to meet meaningful use this year?  You may qualify for a hardship exception.  Eligible professionals that qualify for certain hardship exceptions can avoid the meaningful use payment adjustments in 2015 by submitting to CMS the 2015 Hardship Exception Application.  CMS has permitted the EPs to apply for a hardship exception based on the […]
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In response to numerous industry complaints that hospitals and provider groups will not be able to implement the 2014 certified EHR technology with enough time to meet meaningful use in 2014, CMS has issued proposed revisions extending Stage 2 reporting.  CMS, recognizing that EPs and hospitals are either using 2011 CEHRT, 2014 CEHRT, or a […]
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On May 7, 2014, HHS announced that New York-Presbyterian Hospital (“NYP”) and Columbia University (“CU”) agreed to collectively pay $4.8 million in the largest HIPAA settlement to date. The organizations settled charges that they potentially violated the HIPAA Privacy and Security Rules by failing to secure thousands of patients’ electronic protected health information (“ePHI”). NYP and CU […]
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Advancements in telemedicine offer exciting treatment possibilities for rural communities. Through audio-visual technology, patients in small communities now have the opportunity to access the expertise of specialists at large medical facilities in metropolitan areas. However, along with all of the promise of telemedicine technologies, there are also some important legal issues that health care providers […]
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Last week HHS announced close to $2 Million dollars in HIPAA settlements with Concentra and QCA Health Plan due to the theft of unencrypted laptops.  However, the message from HHS is not just the importance of data encryption, rather its performance and follow through with security risk analysis and implementation of security policies and procedures.  Further, the […]
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The Office of the National Coordinator announced today that it will host a webinar to discuss its Security Risk Assessment Tool. This webinar is designed to review the current state of the tool, discuss some of the known issues and ONC’s plan to address those identified issues, and answer questions from users across the country. […]
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On April 3, 2014, the Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”), in collaboration with the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (“ONC”) and the Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”), released a congressionally mandated report which proposes to clarify oversight of health information technology (“health IT”) based on a product’s function and the potential risk […]
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