Compliance & Legal
While the agreement is not an admission of liability, Doctors’ Management Services has agreed to pay a penalty of $100,000 and be subject to HIPAA-compliance monitoring by OCR for three years.
The CMS-based disincentives outlined in the proposed rule from ONC published Monday would penalize hospitals under the Promoting Interoperability Program, eligible clinicians under MIPS and ACO participants under the Medicare Shared Savings Program.
The White House plan for "safe, secure and trustworthy" artificial intelligence wants the Department of Health and Human Services to have a mechanism in place to collect reports of "harms or unsafe healthcare practices," and act to remedy them.
Interoperability agreements between public health systems, along with centralized consent management for sharing healthcare and other data, are must-haves for advancing health equity, says Daniel Stein, president of Stewards of Change Institute.
Its partnership with Freshpaint seeks to support hospitals, health systems and health plans by configuring their patient engagement ecosystems to support compliance with HIPAA privacy rules and regulations.
Dr. Ben Zaniello, chief medical officer of PointClickCare, explains three pathways to consider to achieve whole person care and shares his personal experiences engaging SDOH on post-acute care coordination.
The technology also helps care teams to standardize patient education and care pathways, while more consistently collecting patient-reported outcomes and other data across its spine, joint and sports medicine service lines, says its orthopedic surgery chief.
The risk management and certification group says the program, touted as the first of its kind, aims to offer a CSF-based strategy to deploy trustworthy models.
The software services provider to nonprofits announced it has agreed to pay 49 states and the District of Columbia this month to resolve investigations into a 2020 cyber hack and into misleading data breach statements made to patients and consumers.
Carol Ann Hudson of health system Lifepoint Health and AdvantagePoint ACOs offers some of her experiences as a woman executive in healthcare (and the space program) and dives deep into the new Electronic Clinical Quality Measures.