Compliance & Legal
The Department of Veterans Affairs has partnered with the Institute for Defense Analyses to capture end-to-end costs of the program.
Members of Congress introduced several bills geared toward identifying critical infrastructure and requiring certain organizations to report cyber incidents in a timely manner.
She comes to OCR from New York State's Department of Health, where she coordinated COVID-19 response and led social programs. Before that, she worked in the Obama administration on cybersecurity at DHS.
The Office of Inspector General found that many states do not conduct monitoring specific to telemedicine – despite reporting concern about fraud, waste and abuse.
A recent study suggests that healthcare organizations can face legal and technological challenges when it comes to complying with the regulation.
More than 43 people in 11 judicial districts were accused of participating in an array of different schemes relating to telemedicine.
A regulation exempting insurers from getting wet signatures for health insurance policies is supposed to lapse by end-September.
The agency also extended its statement to health apps, noting that there are still too few privacy protections for them.
The system will “improve functionality and coordination between health facilities” in the Emirates, says the country’s Ministry of Health and Prevention.
With new CMS rules, researchers say electronic health records should be more easily configurable with ONC's SAFER Guide recommendations – which in turn should be reviewed and updated by the agency each year.