The Department of Health and Human Services has withdrawn the final rule on breach notification it submitted for review to the Office of Management and Budget. [...]

Organizations that serve as “conduits” of protected health information are not covered by the draft privacy and security modifications to HIPAA, according to an HHS lawyer [...]

A small provision in the recently released draft modifications to the HIPAA privacy rule could have a big impact for families and caregivers seeking the health [...]

How did the objectives and measures change in the meaningful use final rule? A complete comparison of each objective and measure appears in the attached PDF file. [...]

The Department of Health and Human Services released the final rule on the meaningful use EHR incentive program this morning. A pre-publication copy–864 pages long–is available in [...]

The Office for Civil Rights released a notice of proposed rulemaking today on modifications to the HIPAA privacy and security rules mandated in the HITECH Act. [...]

Update July 12: Health and Human Services will release the rules tomorrow, with an annoucement scheduled for 10 a.m. EST. The long-awaited “meaningful use” rule appears to [...]

The July “Coding Notes” article “Establishing a CDI Program” outlines how St. Mary Medical Center in Langhorne, PA, set up its clinical documentation improvement program, moving [...]