A Dec. 1 Strafford webinar on the legal and regulatory challenges of Ebola will feature five Husch Blackwell attorneys. The 90-minute CLE webinar with interactive Q&A will provide guidance to healthcare counsel and their clients in addressing HIPAA and EMTALA concerns when treating Ebola patients.
The panel will discuss state and federal mandatory reporting requirements, employment issues and lessons learned from the first U.S. Ebola cases.
The U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) released a bulletin on Nov. 10 reminding entities covered under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) that the protections continue to be in effect during emergencies, including Ebola and other outbreaks. HHS wants to make sure healthcare providers are aware of the ways in which patient information may be shared under the HIPAA Privacy Rule in emergency situations.
Now that patients with Ebola have landed on U.S. soil, hospitals and other healthcare providers must prepare for the possibility that a patient with Ebola will walk through the doors. In this Oct. 30 webinar, Husch Blackwell presenters will look at some of the pressing legal issues related to treating patients with communicable diseases such as Ebola, and what providers can do now to prepare their clinical, compliance and legal teams.
In the Electronic Health Records (EHR) space, unconnected and competing systems carry the potential for organizational train wrecks.
Until robust, efficient, and mandatory interoperability standards emerge, providers should consider linking systems through other means, as failure to do so may lead to malpractice and regulatory compliance issues.
The HIPAA Omnibus Rule made changes to the rules related to marketing involving PHI. A marketing communication, as defined by HIPAA, is a communication about a product or service that encourages the recipient to purchase that product or service. Previously, PHI could not be used or disclosed for a marketing communication without authorization unless…
Are you still trying to understand the changes made in the HIPAA Omnibus Rule?
Do you want an opportunity to ask questions and hear how other providers are handing HIPAA issues?
Do you need a chance to brush up on your HIPAA knowledge and evaluate current strategies?
If so, then you should consider attending one…
Are healthcare providers at your facility texting patient information to each other? This type of communication is becoming more and more common, but such text messages are often in violation of HIPAA. To address this issue, Sprint announced last week that it is now offering two texting products that provide the proper security for PHI…
On Thursday, March 7, 2013, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released a notice and request for information concerning using additional policy levers to accelerate the adoption of electronic health record systems (EHRs). In part, the agencies are looking to increase the number of provider practices satisfying the core requirements for Meaningful Use under the Health Information Technology for Clinical and Economic Health (HITECH) Act.
In the notice, the agencies state that they are looking to accomplish this acceleration by “engaging other policy areas” within the jurisdiction of the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS), and may include a combination of incentives, payment adjustments, and new requirements. The agencies have identified three main areas in which to use the policy levers:
On January 17, 2013, the Office for Civil Rights of the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services issued its final rule modifying the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) privacy, security, enforcement, and breach notification rules under the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act. The final rule…
