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		<title>Early Meaningful Users Promised Stage 2 Extension</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 19:03:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margaret Levi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On November 30, 2011, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius issued a press release announcing proposed steps to encourage physicians and hospitals to adopt electronic health records (EHRs) this year and receive incentive payments made available under the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act), which was [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthitlawblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8002033&amp;post=1222&amp;subd=healthitlawblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Office of Civil Rights Launches Privacy and Security Audits</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2011 18:18:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margaret Levi</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://healthitlawblog.wordpress.com/?p=1167</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Section 13411 of the the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH Act) requires United States Department of Health &#38; Human Services (HHS) to provide for periodic audits to ensure covered entities and business associates are complying with the HIPAA Privacy and Security Rules and Breach Notification standards.   The HHS Office of Civil [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthitlawblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8002033&amp;post=1167&amp;subd=healthitlawblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Final Rule on ACOs encourages EHR adoption but eliminates &#8220;meaningful use&#8221; requirement</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2011 00:40:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margaret Levi</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://healthitlawblog.wordpress.com/?p=1163</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced today, October 20, 2011, that the use of certified electronic health records (EHRs) will be the highest-weighted quality measure for an Accountable Care Organization (ACO) under the new Medicare Shared Savings Program. ACOs are designed to encourage primary care doctors, specialists, hospitals, and other health care providers [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthitlawblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8002033&amp;post=1163&amp;subd=healthitlawblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>ONC Announces Text4Health Task Force</title>
		<link>http://healthitlawblog.wordpress.com/2011/09/20/onc-announces-text4health-task-force/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Sep 2011 23:32:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathie McDonald-McClure</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In an article titled, &#8220;Use of electronic communications with patients,&#8221; posted to this blog on December 18, 2009, I discussed the stated goal under the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act  to “[p]rovide patients and families with timely access to data, knowledge, and tools to make informed decisions and to manage [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthitlawblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8002033&amp;post=1148&amp;subd=healthitlawblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>ONC Releases Model Privacy Notice for Personal Health Records</title>
		<link>http://healthitlawblog.wordpress.com/2011/09/16/onc-releases-model-privacy-notice-for-personal-health-records/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Sep 2011 23:37:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margaret Levi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After the passage of the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act in 2009, the interest in storing and accessing health information online increased, prompting increased concerns about the privacy and security of such information.  In September 2011, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) released a Personal [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthitlawblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8002033&amp;post=1110&amp;subd=healthitlawblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Proposed Federal Regulation Requires HIPAA-Covered Labs to Release Test Results to Patients</title>
		<link>http://healthitlawblog.wordpress.com/2011/09/14/proposed-federal-regulation-requires-hipaa-covered-labs-to-release-test-results-to-patients/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Sep 2011 14:43:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathie McDonald-McClure</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On September 12, 2011, the Office of National Coordinator (ONC) for the United States Department of Health &#38; Human Services (HHS) announced a Proposed Rule that will enable direct access to laboratory test results by patients.  Under the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988 (CLIA), laboratories must hold a CLIA certificate in order to perform one of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthitlawblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8002033&amp;post=1097&amp;subd=healthitlawblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Farzad Mostashari, MD, speaks at 2011 Kentucky eHealth Summit</title>
		<link>http://healthitlawblog.wordpress.com/2011/09/02/farzad-mostashari-md-to-speak-at-2011-kentucky-ehealth-summit/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Sep 2011 15:18:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathie McDonald-McClure</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On September 6 and 7, 2011, the Kentucky Governor&#8217;s Office of Electronic Health Information hosted the 4th annual Kentucky eHealth Summit at the METS Center, 3861 Olympic Boulevard, Erlanger, KY 41018 in northern Kentucky.   Farzad Mostashari, MD, ScM, the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology for the United States Department of Health &#38; Human Services, addressed attendees [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthitlawblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8002033&amp;post=1090&amp;subd=healthitlawblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Office of Civil Rights Steps Up HIPAA Audits</title>
		<link>http://healthitlawblog.wordpress.com/2011/07/13/office-of-civil-rights-steps-up-hipaa-audits/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jul 2011 01:46:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margaret Levi</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://healthitlawblog.wordpress.com/?p=1044</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[SUMMARY:  In June 2011, the  United States Department of Health &#38; Human Services (HHS) Office of Civil Rights (OCR)contracted for new periodic audits of covered entities and business associates to ensure compliance with the Privacy and Security Standards found in the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) as amended by the Health Information [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthitlawblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8002033&amp;post=1044&amp;subd=healthitlawblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Health IT Policy Committee Recommends Delay for Stage 2 Meaningful Use</title>
		<link>http://healthitlawblog.wordpress.com/2011/06/29/health-it-policy-committee-recommends-delay-for-stage-2-meaningful-use/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jun 2011 02:12:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathie McDonald-McClure</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[UPDATE: On July 6, 2011, Farzad Mostashari, M.D., ONC Chief, backed the ONC Policy Committee&#8217;s recommendation to delay implementing Stage 2 meaningful use criteria. ********************************************************************* On June 16, 2011, Paul Tang, M.D. , as Vice Chair of the Health IT Policy Committee for the  Office of National Coordinator (ONC), wrote a letter to Farzad Mostashari, M.D., the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthitlawblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8002033&amp;post=1022&amp;subd=healthitlawblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>CMS Proposed Rule on Accountable Care Organizations is linked to Meaningful Use Measures</title>
		<link>http://healthitlawblog.wordpress.com/2011/04/01/cms-proposed-rule-on-accountable-care-organizations-is-linked-to-meaningful-use-measures/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Apr 2011 17:36:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathie McDonald-McClure</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What do the Physician Quality Reporting Incentives Program (PQRI) and Hospital Inpatient Value Based Purchasing (VBP) Program have in common with the recently released proposed regulation for establishing an Accountable Care Organization (ACO)? Answer: The meaningful use measures established by the Centers for Medicare and Medicare Services (CMS) for qualifying for incentives under the Health Information  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthitlawblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8002033&amp;post=1010&amp;subd=healthitlawblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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