Category: HHS

dleyva
Health and Human Services Secretary Sebelius and the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, David Blumenthal, announced the HITECH funding under the ARRA for State Health Information Exchanges (HIEs) and Regional Extension Center (RECs) across the country.
The White House Press Release provides a detailed list of HIEs and RECs receiving grants. Inormation is […]

John Goodman
Members of the U.S. House of Representative submitted an October 1, 2009 letter of concern to Secretary Sebelius and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) concerning inclusion of a “harm standard” in the recently released(August 24, 2009) Interim Final Rule - Breach Notification for Unsecured Protected Health Information (45 CFR […]

jingemi
On April 17, 2009, the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) issued guidance on the technology requirements to render protected health information (PHI) “unusable, unreadable or indecipherable to unauthorized individuals, as required by the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH) which is a part of the American […]

John Goodman
Today the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONCHIT) issued a href=”http://www.hhs.gov/healthit/documents/NationwidePS_Framework.pdf”The Nationwide Privacy and Security Framework for Electronic Exchange of Individually Identifiable Health Information/a. The summary states that the framework creates a set of principles and consistent approach to:br /blockquote”. . .address the privacy and security challenges […]

Lola Butcher
The WSJ Health Blog, “Feds Fight to Keep Doctor Data Secret,” has the latest on the Consumers’ Checkbook v. HHS matter involving whether or not Medicare physicians claims data should be made publicly available. Consumers’ Checkbook, a nonprofit consumer information and service resource, wants to use the data to rate physicians […]

RCoffield@fsblaw.com
Yesterday HHS announced that CMS will involve physicians in a five year demonstration project encouraging small and medium physician practices to adopt electronic health records.
Excerpt from Secretary Leavitt’s announcement:
“This demonstration is designed to show that streamlining health care management with electronic health records will reduce medical errors and improve quality of care for […]

RCoffield@fsblaw.com
iHealthBeat provides commentary and an update on the outcome of the Consumers’ Checkbook v. HHS matter involving whether or not Medicare physicians claims data should be made publicly available.
The United States District Court for the District of Columbia ruled in favor of Consumers’ Checkbook on August 22 requiring that HHS release the physician […]

RCoffield@fsblaw.com
NetDoc now as a mashup of Google Maps and HHS hospital data. As Shahid Shah says, these types of tools takes mountains of data and makes it more accessible and easier to digest by the average public health consumer. Here is the view/data of hospitals that are 100 miles from Charleston, West Virginia.
Here […]