The HITECH Act includes an exception to the marketing authorization requirement for health care operations communications for which the covered entity receives payment to permit refill reminders and ...

Six years and $28 billion later, it is still unclear whether the HITECH Act achieved its goals of increasing efficiency, reducing costs and improving the quality of care. The intent of the act was to ...

The HITECH Act requires FTC, in consultation with HHS, to study potential privacy, security and breach notification requirements for vendors of personal health records (“PHRs”) and other entities that ...

On February 8, 2024, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) posted a final rule that aims to align 42 CFR Part 2 (Part 2) — which protects certain substance abuse disorder (SUD) records — ...

Healthcare providers and others handling sensitive patient data are now finding the stakes raised if they suffer a data breach because of a new law known as the “Health Information Technology for ...

While the HITECH Act presents great opportunity for healthcare providers, a lack of clarity on standards represents a lot of unknowns for the future. According to the Congressional Budget Office, the ...

For the first time, to my knowledge, there is a lawsuit invoking the new provisions of the HITECH Act — Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal filed a lawsuit against Health Net for violating ...

If you are in the business of securing Personal Health Information (“PHI”) for a healthcare provider, you have no doubt read in detail the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical ...

A former CFO at a now-shuttered hospital has pleaded guilty to submitting false documents so the medical center could receive $785,000 in payments under the HITECH Act electronic health records ...