One of the provisions of the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act portion of the Recovery Act changed the requirements for HIPAA-covered entities to maintain an accounting of disclosures of health information….
The Social Security Administration (SSA), citing an increased volume of claims and requests for its services, is evaluating ways to conduct more of its transactions online. Before making such a move SSA needs first to establish…
In a widely anticipated step, a discussion draft of an Internet privacy bill in the House of Representatives was released today, giving observers the chance to see where Congress might be headed with such legislation. The…
Both of the two federal health IT advisory committees working in support of the Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) have taken up discussion on patient privacy and consent management, working through the respective privacy and…
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