HIPAA changes are coming in 2023—is your organization prepared? You may have heard rumors circulating over the last year that changes are coming to HIPAA. It’s true: the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has stated that modifications to the HIPAA Privacy Rule are due to...
It seems like just when you finally feel on top of your HIPAA compliance, you hear about a change to HIPAA coming soon. And, with the implementation of Information Blocking in 2021, the Healthcare Cyber Security Act in 2022, and Proposed Modifications to the HIPAA...
We have been posting and talking a lot about the ONC Final Rule and the CMS Final Rule, and the impact these rules have on provider and payer technologies such as EHRs and payer systems. The use of HL7 FHIR as a standard for interoperability can and will open...
We recently posted about the CMS Final Rule (CMS 9115-F), requiring providers and payers to use the emerging HL7 standard of Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR, pronounced FIRE) to share data with patients and other providers and payers. Still there is...
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) have issued a new rule titled Final Rule (CMS 9115-F). The CMS Final Rule was finalized as a regulation in May 2020. What is this rule and how will it change the way your practice handles business? Under the new CMS...