Recent Healthcare Law News
HIPAA Privacy Rule Accounting of Disclosures under HITECH
Posted from Health Care Law Blog 138 days ago
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Today's Federal Register includes the Office of Civil Rights (OCR) Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) modifying the HIPAA Privacy Rule's Accounting of Disclosure requirements for protected health information. OCR was required to make these modifications to the HIPAA Privacy Rule to implement the ... (original story)
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Body Browser: Think Google Earth for the Human Body!
Posted from Health Care Law Blog 138 days ago
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Yesterday Google released Body Browser. Think Google Earth for human anatomy.Body Browser is described as a 3-dimensional multi-layered anatomical model of the human body that you can rotate, zoom in on, and search. More information about Body Browser is available in Google Labs.Great to see Google ... (original story)
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Thanksgiving 2011: Occupy The Dinner Table and Engage With Grace
Posted from Health Care Law Blog 138 days ago
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The Engage with Grace Project is an effort to raise awareness of the importance of end of life care planning and discussing your wishes with your family and friends. Dr. Bryan Vartabedian captures the simplicity of the project in his post, "It began with a simple idea: Create a tool to get people ... (original story)
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OCR Seeks FY2012 Budget Increase of $5.6M for HIPAA Compliance and Enforcement
Posted from Health Care Law Blog 138 days ago
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HealthLeaders reports that the Office of Civil Rights (OCR) is seeking an additional $5.6 million in its Fiscal Year 2012 budget proposal to fund its HIPAA compliance and enforcement activities.The article also details the most current reported numbers on breaches reported to OCR. As of March 16 the... (original story)
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WVCLE: Health Care Law 2011 Seminar
Posted from Health Care Law Blog 138 days ago
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The West Virginia Continuing Legal Education Section of WVU College of Law will be sponsoring Health Care Law 2011 Seminar on May 20, 2011, in Charleston, West Virginia at WVU Medical Center - CAMC.The Health Care Law 2011 Seminar will cover a variety of topics of interest to West Virginia health ca... (original story)
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OCR Imposes $4.3M Penalty for Violation of HIPAA/HITECH Privacy Rule
Posted from Health Care Law Blog 138 days ago
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UNTIL TODAY, many health care providers questioned whether HHS and the Office of Civil Rights (OCR) would ever issue any significant penalties for violations of the HIPAA Privacy Rule. However, will OCR ever be able to collect the penalties.Today, HHS Office of Civil Rights (OCR) announced a civil m... (original story)
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2011 AHLA Annual Meeting: How to Use Social Media with @BobCoffield
Posted from Health Care Law Blog 138 days ago
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Welcome How to Use Social Media session students and others. I hope you enjoyed my presentation during the afternoon health care social media sessions at the 2011 American Health Lawyers Association Annual Meeting in Boston. The health care social media sessions this afternoon were a great introduc... (original story)
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West Virginia Connect
Posted from Health Care Law Blog 138 days ago
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Today's Charleston Gazette features an article on a new health care demonstration project, West Virginia Connect, funded by a $36 million federal Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) grant.The article indicates that the funding will be for eight West Virginia primary care clinics to p... (original story)
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AHLA Boston "TWEETup"
Posted from Health Care Law Blog 138 days ago
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Plans are set for a "TWEETup" during the American Health Lawyers Association 2011 Annual Meeting next week in Boston. All registered health lawyers are welcome along with other Boston area Twitter friends, Boston's Health 2.0 community, health care social media aficionados, and anyone else intereste... (original story)
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University of California Settles Potential HIPAA Privacy and Security Violations with OCR for $865,500
Posted from Health Care Law Blog 138 days ago
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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced that the University of California at Los Angeles Health System which includes UCLA Ronald Reagan Medical Center, UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center, and Orthopedic Hospital, Resnick Neuropsychiatric Hospital, and... (original story)
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