The HIPAA omnibus regulation is finally out as a final reg. The HIPAA Privacy, Security, Enforcement, and Breach Notification Rules were…
The Health IT Policy Committee of the Office of the National Coordinator of Health IT released its proposed Stage 3…
Welcome to the final edition of HealthCare SocialMedia Review for 2012. HCSM Review is a biweekly compendium of the best…
[View the story "Leon Rodriguez, Director, HHS OCR, discusses HIPAA / HITECH Enforcement Last Week" on Storify]Leon Rodriguez, Director, HHS…
Next Wednesday your humble HealthBlawger will be hosting Health Care Social Media Review No. 19. From the HCSMReview blog carnival homepage:…
A new Press Ganey white paper highlights an association between HCAHPS performance -- patient experience scores -- and lower rates…
In the first three years that the HITECH data breach notification rules have been in effect (September 2009 - September…
Here's an excerpt from a piece in Becker's ASC Review quoting me on the effect ACO development and other health…
The latest news story to examine the issue of patient access to implantable cardiac defibrillator data (a variation on the theme of…
Just two and a half years after hosting a workshop on the HIPAA Privacy Rule's de-identification standard, OCR has issued…