Compliance & Legal

In healthcare, there is a need to improve the speed to an answer without affecting the quality of the answer, says Nigel Hughes, scientific director at Janssen Clinical Innovation.

Jeff Coughlin, senior director of Federal and State Affairs at HIMSS, discusses information-blocking, interoperability, social determinants and recently proposed rules from CMS and ONC.

Will Smart, CIO for Health and Social Care in England, says measuring digital maturity using tools such as EMRAM helps the NHS track progress of the global digital exemplars against international standards.

Healthcare attorney Matt Fisher says HIPAA doesn’t need to change much, although it might need some tinkering around the edges.

Leavitt Partners Principal Ryan Howells discusses work with the CARIN Alliance using the HIPAA Individual Right of Access to extract data into an app and then redirect that information back into the HIPAA workflow.

Adam Greene, partner at Davis Wright Tremaine, says the HITECH Act may have pushed forward the digitization of the healthcare system, but it also changed what can go wrong from a legal compliance perspective by an order of magnitude.

Defense Healthcare Management Systems' Stacy Cummings and the DHA's Major General Lee Payne and Pat Flanders discuss the giant change management problem and infrastructure needs for an enterprise EHR implementation.   

HIMSS Vice President Tom Leary details how policy changes are advancing interoperability and offers insight into information blocking, innovation and potential changes to HIPAA.

Jennifer Lannon, advisor at Health Innovation, explains the advantages of the new domain, including how hospitals in Seattle and Miami are using it for branding and marketing purposes.

The organization is partnering with Providence St. Joseph to enable clinicians to apply insights that help patients be more compliant, says ResMed's VP of SaaS Strategy Annie McBride.