Lee Kim will be presenting a webinar for HIMSS on May 22nd entitled, "Regulation and Innovation in mHealth: What You Need to Know to Successfully Play in the mHealth Space" as part of the HIMSS Virtual Forum on mHealth’s Impact: The Most Rapid Transformation in Healthcare Today. A summary of the presentation can be
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Healthcare to Go: Securing Mobile Healthcare Data
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Posted in HIPAA, HIT, and EHR
Tucker Arensberg attorney, Lee Kim, will be speaking at the SANS Mobile Device Security Summit 2013 in Anaheim, California on May 30. Lee will be discussing the challenges of securing healthcare data and implementation of security controls in the mobile space.
PA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH LEVIES $5.5 MILLION MCARE SURCHARGE ON HOSPITALS AND ASCs
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Posted in Articles, Long Term Care
On April 14, 2013, the Pennsylvania Department of Health levied a $5.5 million surcharge for fiscal year 2013 on hospitals, ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) and birth centers for funding the MCare professional liability debts and expenses. Continue Reading PA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH LEVIES $5.5 MILLION MCARE SURCHARGE ON HOSPITALS AND ASCs
Proposed Rules Relating to Donated EHR software and certain related items to services to physicians
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Posted in HIPAA, HIT, and EHR
CMS and the Office of Inspector General at HHS (OIG) have respectively published proposed rules to extend the sunset dates for the Stark exception and anti-kickback statute safe harbor permitting donations of EHR software and certain related items and services to physicians. These provisions are set to expire on December 31, 2013. Both agencies have proposed almost…
Safeguarding Your Data While Minimizing the Risk of Security Breaches
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Lee Kim, Tucker Arensberg attorney and Chair of the mHIMSS Legal/Policy Taskforce, will be a panelist at the American Conference Institute’s Legal and Business Guide to mHealth and Wireless Medical Technology in Washington, D.C. on April 30, 2013. Her panel will cover securing mobile devices, networks, data in the “cloud” and cybercrime.
OIG KO’s PODs: Physician Owned Distributorships
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Posted in Compliance, Fraud - Stark
The OIG has issued a Special Fraud Alert, dated March 26, 2013, describing specific attributes and practices of Physician Owned Distributorships (PODs) believed to produce substantial fraud and abuse risk and pose dangers to patient safety.
PODs are physician owned entities that derive revenue from selling or arranging for the sale of implantable medical…
National Commission on Payment Reform Recommends 5 Year Transition Model
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Posted in Medicare & Reimbursement
The Society of General Internal Medicine convened the National Commission on Payment Reform to formulate a recommendation for healthcare payment reform. This Commission released its Report in March 2013. Although we have attached the report, here are the 12 fundamental recommendations.
1. Over time, payers should largely eliminate stand-alone fee-for-service payment to medical practices because of …
Two New Federal Policy Documents on Critical Infrastructure Protection
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Posted in HIPAA, HIT, and EHR
Contributed by Lee Kim, Esq.
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The White House released two documents on February 12th related to critical infrastructure protection and cybersecurity: the Presidential Policy Directive #21 on Critical Infrastructure and Resilience (PPD-21) which replaces the Homeland Security Presidential Directive (HSPD-7) which previously served as the policy basis for the national critical infrastructure protection…
Final HIPAA omnibus rule published
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Posted in HIPAA, HIT, and EHR
Contributed by Lee Kim, Esq.
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The final HIPAA Omnibus Rule has been published and addresses privacy, security, enforcement, and breach notification.
California Issues Guidance on Mobile Privacy
By Michael Cassidy on
Posted in Legal News
Contributed by Lee Kim, Esq.
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All commercial website and online service providers need to comply with the requirements of the California Online Privacy Protection Act. California recently issued guidance on how mobile application developers and others can comply with those requirements at the design stage in its guide entitled, "Privacy On the Go…