Yet Another Class-Action Filed After Breaches of Patient Data In what appears to be the trend in California for 2011, another class-action lawsuit has been filed, this time by patients of the University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA) Health System affected by a data breach in early...
OIG Releases New Fraud and Abuse Advisory Opinion Involving EHR Data Exchange On December 7, 2011, the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) released an Advisory Opinion regarding a proposed coordination service to facilitate the electronic exchange of data for patient referral...
OCR Director Reaffirms Commitment to Strengthening Privacy and Security of EHRs It’s no secret that since the days of its enactment, HIPAA enforcement has been lacking on both civil and criminal fronts from the Office of Civil Rights (OCR) and the Department of Justice (DOJ). However,...
California HIE Demonstration Projects to Move Ahead with Opt-In Framework This past Wednesday, the California Office of Health Information Integrity (CalOHII) released a comprehensive whitepaper examining patient consent and other HIE framework efforts for entities participating in the...
Federal Government Releases Updated DURSA for NHIN Participants An Amended and Restated DURSA dated May 3, 2011 was released November 30, 2011. The DURSA is an acronym for the “Data Use and Reciprocal Support Agreement.” It is a comprehensive agreement to govern the exchange of health...