SAMHSA Awards IT Grants for Behavioral Health The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) announced last week that it will award up to $13.2 million in health information technology (HIT) grants for mental and behavioral health care settings. These grants...
ONC’s Model PHR Notice Now Available to Vendors Following the release of its Federal Health IT Strategic Plan, the Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) has made available a Personal Health Record (PHR) Model Privacy Notice for PHR vendors to use in communicating their data practices...
ONC Releases Ambitious Health IT Strategic Plan The Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) released its Federal Health Information Technology (IT) Strategic Plan this September, detailing its goals and strategies for transforming health care through health IT over the next five...
Helen to Speak on Solving Privacy Dilemmas with Health Information Exchange at national Health Care Info Privacy Forum To Register, click here.
New Hampshire HIO Hits the Ground Running After years of collaboration and planning, New Hampshire has announced the launch of its Health Information Organization, the NH-HIO, developed with the help of the New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services Office of Health...
Uncertainty in Federal Budget Prompts Kansas to Return .5M Early Innovator Grant On Tuesday, August 9th, Kansas Governor Sam Brownback announced that Kansas would be returning $31.5M in federal grant money awarded to it from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). There is...
HITPC Releases Tiger Team EHR Amendment/Correction Recommendations The ONC Health Information Technology Policy Committee (HITPC) released the Privacy & Security Tiger Team (Tiger Team) recommendations concerning amendments and corrections to electronic medical records (EMRs) in a...
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HHS Announces Proposed Rules for Health Insurance Exchanges In a Press Release posted yesterday, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) proposed a framework to assist states in building Affordable Insurance Exchanges, state-based competitive marketplaces where...
U.S. Supreme Court Strikes Down Vermont’s Prescription Drug Data Mining Ban Law Last Friday, the United States Supreme Court struck down the Vermont Prescription Confidentiality Law allowing prescriber-identifying information to be sold and disclosed by pharmacies and pharmaceutical...
Maine Reverts Back to Opt-Out Approach for HIE In my previous post (April 26, 2011), I discussed legislation proposed by privacy advocates in Maine which would require, among other things, that patients “opt-in” before any information could be collected, accessed or disclosed through...
HHS Releases Proposed Rule for Accounting of Disclosures A Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) concerning the accounting of disclosures (AOD)requirement under the HIPAA Privacy Rule was posted last Friday, May 31, 2011. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Office...
OCR Will Address Almost Everything in HITECH Omnibus Rule HealthDataManagementhas quoted Susan McAndrew, deputy director of health information privacy in the Department of Health and Human Services, OCR, as saying that the final rules implementing the HITECH Act are to be released...
One NJ HIE pilot is testing “plug in” software that scans data residing in the HIE repository and “tags” it where certain terms are found which correspond to rules developed around state and federal laws restricting access to such information unless certain pre-conditions have been met, such as the patient giving prior written consent. Once identified, the tagged data element, or document if it is not a discrete data segment, is removed from viewing, but leaving a “flag” noting that certain information is incomplete and that additional requirements need to be met before it can be accessed i.e., the patient’s affirmative consent has been obtained.
Maine Considers Opt-In Requirement for HIEs New legislation has been proposed by privacy advocates in Maine that would govern how patient information is shared through the statewide HIE, HealthInfoNet. LD 1337, which is entitled “The Act to Ensure Patient Privacy and Control with...