Beginning September 1, HHS’ Office of the Inspector General will begin enforcing the anti-information blocking regulations laid out in the 21st Century Cures Act. EHR vendors are the entities that are most at risk of being fined — they could face penalties up to $1 million.
The onus is on providers, payers and their technology partners to use the new laws and market dynamics as a catalyst to fully achieve digital transformation in healthcare and improve the patient experience.
Munck Wilson Mandala Partner Greg Howison shared his perspective on some of the legal ramifications around AI, IP, connected devices and the data they generate, in response to emailed questions.
Since ONC is the certifying body for EHRs, providers must be prepared to transition to a new “Cures Edition” version of its software before the end of 2022.
The Department of Health and Human Services put out a series of strategies to reduce the amount of time physicians spend on documentation on Monday. The report includes suggestions to standardize certain elements of EHRs, and bring federal reporting requirements up to date.
The organizations will collaborate on efforts to pull real-world data from a number of sources including EHRs, data registries and testing labs and determine their utility in making regulatory decisions.
More than 230,000 people have started the process of joining the research program and more than 142,000 have completed the program's first research protocol.
At the Abarca Forward conference earlier this year, George Van Antwerp, managing director at Deloitte, discussed how social determinants of health and a personalized member experience can improve medication adherence and health outcomes.
During the Redox and Matter Healthcare Interoperability Summit in Chicago, a panel of investors and executives discussed where we are and where we're going in terms of interoperability in healthcare.
Larger medtech companies have traditionally shied away from investing in the pediatric market...
It's not just new research that will suffer if proposed healthcare budget cuts are approved, writes Syapse Founder and President Jonathan Hirsch. The basic foundations of healthcare, including public health databases, are also on the line.
NantWorks' Patrick Soon-Shiong and leaders from Norton Healthcare and Sutter Health have been appointed to a new Health IT Advisory Committee formed through the passing of the 21st Century Cures Act.
We will highlight Build My Health's revenue practice management tools, which could help physician practices add up to $250,000 to their practices.
In 12 months, the Cancer Moonshot has made great strides, secured $1.8 billion in funding and seeded countless projects, partnerships, and possibilities. One year on, a new administration has the power to undo it all.
Dr. Robert Califf, who stepped down last month, offers five tips about keeping Americans safe — and making sure drugs actually work — after about a year overseeing the federal agency.
Mental health advocates have described it as the most significant piece of mental health legislation since the 2008 law requiring equal insurance coverage for mental and physical health.
The 21st Century Cures Act, an ambitious bipartisan bill primarily designed to advance medical science and accelerate the introduction of innovative therapeutics to market, cleared the Senate Wednesday.
The bill is a grab bag for industries that spent plenty of money lobbying to make sure it happened that way.