Additional Time to Establish Protocols for Newly Required Face-to-Face Encounters for DME
Due to concerns that some providers and suppliers may need additional time to establish operational protocols necessary to comply with face-to-face encounter requirements mandated by the Affordable Care Act (ACA) for certain items of Durable Medical Equipment (DME), CMS will start actively enforcing…
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The CERT program is having a free all-day event tomorrow (June 26, 2013) in Pittsburgh, PA on security incident management for health information exchanges. This event is underwritten by the US Department of Health and Human Services.
Registration is free, but required. http://www.cert.org/cybersecurity-hie/. The event will be live and …
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Healtheway was previously known as the National Helath Information Network. It is a non-profit public-private partnership and has announced today its nine founding members. These members include the American Medical Association, Epic, Kaiser Permanente, New York eHealth Collaborative, among others.
For the full press release, please see http://finance.yahoo.com/news/healtheway-announces-founding-members-groundbreaking-110000367.html.
Lee Kim has been selected to the HIMSS Privacy and Security Committee for this coming fiscal year.
In addition, she recently gave a talk on mobile healthcare information security on May 30, 2013 at the SANS Mobile Device Security Summit. A review of her talk (and those of others) can be found here: http://blog.secureideas.com/2013/06/sans-mobile-summit-2013-recap.html.…
Lee Kim will be speaking at the Government Health IT Conference on June 11-12, 2013 in Washington, D.C. addressing changes due to the Omnibus Privacy Rule. Privacy and security requirements for health data can be complex and intimidating. HIPAA and HITECH, and now the January 2013 release of the HIPAA Omnibus Rule have a very practical…
Lee Kim will be giving a webinar on negotiating electronic health record agreements on Thursday, June 20, 2013.
EHR’s are increasingly outsourced services provided by specialty vendors who can take advantage of economics of scale and concentrated expertise. But this means that mission-critical health care functions are more dependent on complex systems the provider does not…
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
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.
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
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…
