Compliance & Legal

Healthcare organizations must urge the Senate to pass critical telehealth legislation, and enact at least a two-year extension of the important PHE-era policies while working toward a permanent solution.

Steve Gilbert, a consultant and anti-racism advisor, says healthcare stakeholders must show "amazing leadership and be incredibly brave" in order to help discriminated groups and reduce healthcare disparities.

This week's top stories include the GAO saying data issues occurred partly because the VA did not establish performance measures and goals for migrated data quality, and AliveCor's KardiaMobile Card that is able to take a single-lead ECG in 30 seconds.

This week's top stories include a guilty verdict for Elizabeth Holmes on three counts of wire fraud and one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, and a data breach at Broward Health that affected the personal information of patients and staff members.

This week's top stories include TeamHealth's court victory against UnitedHealthcare for engaging in unfair reimbursement practices, and UC Davis Health's AWS-powered CIC that aims to further digital health equity.

This week's top stories include Amwell snapping up SilverCloud Health and Conversa Health, the AMA backing vaccine mandates for healthcare workers, and the VA suspending Cerner EHR rollouts until 2022.

In this episode of HIT Cybersecurity, attorney Wynter Deagle, partner at Troutman Pepper, discusses what health systems should be thinking about in terms of incident response, cyber insurance and other compliance questions.

Image sharing is finally advancing away from CD-ROMs and toward image-enabled personal health records, say Dr. David Mendelson, vice chair of radiology IT at Mount Sinai, and Dave Cassel, executive director of Carequality.

Compliance is a serious, enforceable matter – and must be properly addressed in the context of the workplace challenges and changes that have emerged amid the pandemic. 

Many of the top 10 incidents logged by HHS Office for Civil Rights involved ransomware, but a few stemmed from device theft or improper record disposal.