Adding yet another wrinkle to the nation’s contentious gun control debate, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has released an Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPRM) soliciting information and public comment on possible amendments to the HIPAA Privacy Rule to permit disclosure of limited mental health information to the National Instant Criminal … Continue Reading
On August 4, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released an Advanced Notice of Proposed Rule Making (ANPRM) on metadata standards to support a nationwide electronic health information exchange. Section 3001 of the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act provides for the Office of the National Coordinator for Health … Continue Reading
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