ONC published a draft description of the health IT extension program in today’s Federal Register, requesting comments within two weeks—by June 11. The extension program is [...]

The Department of Health and Human Services released its program plan for enacting the health IT incentives provisions called for in ARRA. By the end of [...]

May is a busy month for the health IT provisions in ARRA, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (or “stimulus bill”). Federal groups scrambled to meet [...]

On Friday the California Department of Public Health announced an administrative penalty of $250,000 against Kaiser Permanente Bellflower Hospital for failing to prevent unauthorized access to [...]

If you ever wonder what progress the Office for Civil Rights is making as it works its way through HIPAA privacy rule complaints, the numbers are [...]

New Health and Human Services secretary Kathleen Sebelius was on Capitol Hill yesterday with two new reports from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality in [...]

Healthcare organizations must ensure that their sanctions policies for internal privacy and security breaches are consistent, fair, and objective for all staff members. Organizations that fail [...]

One day before the Red Flags Rule were to take effect, the Federal Trade Commission announced a three-month delay. Organizations that would have woken up out [...]