The OIG recently issued an interesting advisory opinion related to a hospital based hospice agency’s intent to establish a volunteer program to provide non-skilled services to terminally ill patients who do not qualify for hospice care. Read the full text of the OIG opinion here: https://oig.hhs.gov/fraud/docs/advisoryopinions/2012/AdvOpn12-17.pdf
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December 2012
OIG Advisory Opinion No. 12-20
By Michael Cassidy on
Posted in HIPAA, HIT, and EHR
Contributed by Lee Kim, Esq.
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The Office of Inspector General of the Department of Health and Human Services has issued an advisory opinion regarding a hospital’s proposal to provide free acces to an electronic interface to community physicians and physician practices (who request it) so that the physicians and practices can transmit orders for…
mHIMSS Roadmap
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Posted in HIPAA, HIT, and EHR
Contributed by Lee Kim, Esq.
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mHIMSS, the mobile initiative of HIMSS, has released the mHIMSS Roadmap to serve as guideance for professionals, organizations, corporations and health systems on the adoption of mobile and mobile health devices.
Lee Kim, chair of the mHIMSS Legal/Policy taskforce, authored several sections of the legal & policy section of the…