Compliance & Legal

For nurse practitioners and physician assistants in states with restrictive practice rules, it matches them with other clinicians, automates licensing compliance and provides EHR-agnostic chart sharing and a HIPAA-compliant chat.

While extortion continues to drive the work of cyber adversaries, organizations are restoring from attacks faster and making ransom payments less frequently than in years past, the data and security experts said.

In a letter to the Office for Civil Rights, the Medical Group Management Association asked HHS to ensure its provider members will be held blameless and that UnitedHealth and Change Healthcare will take on the administrative work of alerting customers.

The move from on-premise to Oracle's cloud seeks to provide patients and clinicians with faster and more secure access to data.

In addition to presenting risks for users, inadequate privacy policies may pose risks for hospitals, according to researchers, who found most hospitals tracked and transferred website user data to third-party domains. 

The hospital group calls new revisions to HHS’ pixel tracking guidance "regulatory overreach," and says the update is "unlawful and unwise." Meanwhile, Massachusetts is weighing two class action suits that would allege such tracking violates wiretap laws.