Compliance & Legal

The technology also helps care teams to standardize patient education and care pathways, while more consistently collecting patient-reported outcomes and other data across its spine, joint and sports medicine service lines, says its orthopedic surgery chief.

The risk management and certification group says the program, touted as the first of its kind, aims to offer a CSF-based strategy to deploy trustworthy models.

The software services provider to nonprofits announced it has agreed to pay 49 states and the District of Columbia this month to resolve investigations into a 2020 cyber hack and into misleading data breach statements made to patients and consumers.

Carol Ann Hudson of health system Lifepoint Health and AdvantagePoint ACOs offers some of her experiences as a woman executive in healthcare (and the space program) and dives deep into the new Electronic Clinical Quality Measures.

The American Hospital Association says new regs from the HHS Office for Civil Rights clash with HIPAA, contradict interoperability efforts and are "flawed as a matter of law and harmful as a matter of policy."

The DEA's two days of curated listening sessions showcased ideas for how a special registration eliminating in-person evaluation requirements for medically necessary controlled substances might work, but the agency indicated a need for more specifics.

When healthcare CISOs owned responsibility for medical device security, the application of frameworks such as HHS 405(d) Health Industry Cybersecurity Practices increased by as much as 18%, according to early peer benchmarking research results.

In a letter to Anne Milgram, administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration, they say Congress created a special registration under the SUPPORT Act "not as an option for DEA to utilize, but a requirement."