Health Law

ONC announces HITECH amendments to HIPAA privacy, security and enforcement rules

Posted on July 09, 2010
The federales announced a new set of HIPAA regulations today (to be published in the Federal Register on July 14) in a press conference featuring Kathleen Sebelius (HHS Secretary), Georgina Verdugo (HHS OCR Director) and David Blumenthal (ONC Director)...

ONC announces HITECH amendments to HIPAA privacy, security and enforcement rules

Posted on July 09, 2010
The federales announced a new set of HIPAA regulations today (to be published in the Federal Register on July 14) in a press conference featuring Kathleen Sebelius (HHS Secretary), Georgina Verdugo (HHS OCR Director) and David Blumenthal (ONC Director)...

HealthBlawg nominated to LexisNexis Top 50 Blogs in their Insurance Law Community

Posted on June 25, 2010
Thanks, LexisNexis, for this honor. Everybody else, head over to the Top 50 Blogs post, register, and post a comment endorsing HealthBlawg. While you're there, check out the other nominees, including the blogs of fellow Health Wonks Hank Stern and...

HealthBlawg nominated to LexisNexis Top 50 Blogs in their Insurance Law Community

Posted on June 25, 2010
Thanks, LexisNexis, for this honor. Everybody else, head over to the Top 50 Blogs post, register, and post a comment endorsing HealthBlawg. While you're there, check out the other nominees, including the blogs of fellow Health Wonks Hank Stern and...

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Healthymagination VP Mike Barber speaks with David Harlow about GE's investment in health care and health care improvement

Posted on June 21, 2010
What if you could improve health care across the three intransigent parameters of cost, access and quality by 15%? That's the challenge GE has set out for itself in the form of its current five-year Healthymagination campaign, and it's investing...

Healthymagination VP Mike Barber speaks with David Harlow about GE's investment in health care and health care improvement

Posted on June 21, 2010
What if you could improve health care across the three intransigent parameters of cost, access and quality by 15%? That's the challenge GE has set out for itself in the form of its current five-year Healthymagination campaign, and it's investing...

Final EHR certification rule announced by ONC

Posted on June 18, 2010
A surgeon can?t operate without the proper equipment. A clinician can?t achieve meaningful use of electronic health records without an EHR that is designed to improve patient care and practice efficiency. -- David Blumenthal Today, David Blumenthal, Steve Posnack and...

Final EHR certification rule announced by ONC

Posted on June 18, 2010
A surgeon can?t operate without the proper equipment. A clinician can?t achieve meaningful use of electronic health records without an EHR that is designed to improve patient care and practice efficiency. -- David Blumenthal Today, David Blumenthal, Steve Posnack and...

Blawg Review #268

Posted on June 14, 2010
"In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress." -- John Adams* Welcome to the Flag Day 2010 edition of...

Blawg Review #268

Posted on June 14, 2010
"In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress." -- John Adams* Welcome to the Flag Day 2010 edition of...

Spring into Summer

Posted on June 13, 2010
My apologies to regular readers of HealthBlawg for sporadic posting as of late. Things should pick up this week with an edition of Blawg Review and a podcast interview at the very least. If you aren't already following me on...

Spring into Summer

Posted on June 13, 2010
My apologies to regular readers of HealthBlawg for sporadic posting as of late. Things should pick up this week with an edition of Blawg Review and a podcast interview at the very least. If you aren't already following me on...

Blog carnival trifecta

Posted on June 10, 2010
It's a Health Wonk Review week -- the latest, "killer," edition of the biweekly blog carnival for health wonks is up, courtesy of Tinker Ready at Boston Health News. The weekly carnivals are worth a read, too, of course: the...

Blog carnival trifecta

Posted on June 10, 2010
It's a Health Wonk Review week -- the latest, "killer," edition of the biweekly blog carnival for health wonks is up, courtesy of Tinker Ready at Boston Health News. The weekly carnivals are worth a read, too, of course: the...

Social Media Summit 2010 - June 3, Sponsored by Mass TLC, at Microsoft NERD

Posted on May 28, 2010
I'll be facilitating one of the breakout sessions at the Massachusetts Technology Leadership Council's Social Media Summit 2010 next Thursday - and the rest of the program looks pretty darn good, too. Check out the agenda, and I hope to...

Social Media Summit 2010 - June 3, Sponsored by Mass TLC, at Microsoft NERD

Posted on May 28, 2010
I'll be facilitating one of the breakout sessions at the Massachusetts Technology Leadership Council's Social Media Summit 2010 next Thursday - and the rest of the program looks pretty darn good, too. Check out the agenda, and I hope to...

HIT incentives in Massachusetts: Less carrot, more stick

Posted on May 05, 2010
Health care providers all over the country are all worked up because they say that the federales' regulations on meaningful use of certified EHRs go too far, too fast. They should be glad they're not in Massachusetts, where EHR use...

Healthcare Performance Management Institute's Executive Director, George Pantos, speaks with David Harlow about tools and strategies for employers to manage health care services and expenses

Posted on May 03, 2010
Health care costs are a perennial issue for employers and employees. There are a variety of approaches out there designed to improve health status and health outcomes and reduce costs at the same time. Proponents of a variety of approaches...

Healthcare Performance Management Institute's Executive Director, George Pantos, speaks with David Harlow about tools and strategies for employers to manage health care services and expenses

Posted on May 03, 2010
Health care costs are a perennial issue for employers and employees. There are a variety of approaches out there designed to improve health status and health outcomes and reduce costs at the same time. Proponents of a variety of approaches...

Fake Facebook profiles and other portents of the end times

Posted on April 26, 2010
One issue up for discussion in this evening's free-form health care social media tweetchat was the fake Facebook page of eSara Baker, posted as a form of marketing for a company providing online health-related services (which sound like typical patient...

Fake Facebook profiles and other portents of the end times

Posted on April 26, 2010
One issue up for discussion in this evening's free-form health care social media tweetchat was the fake Facebook page of eSara Baker, posted as a form of marketing for a company providing online health-related services (which sound like typical patient...

Health Care Social Media comes to the Massachusetts Hospital Association

Posted on April 22, 2010
The Massachusetts Hospital Association presented a health care social media program today featuring two leading evangelists and strategists -- who also happen to be compelling speakers: Larry Weber and Lee Aase. The MHA is getting its own social media presence...

Health Care Social Media comes to the Massachusetts Hospital Association

Posted on April 22, 2010
The Massachusetts Hospital Association presented a health care social media program today featuring two leading evangelists and strategists -- who also happen to be compelling speakers: Larry Weber and Lee Aase. The MHA is getting its own social media presence...

FDA takes it up a notch: A fresh look at radiation emitting equipment regulation, and what about EHRs?

Posted on April 21, 2010
Earlier this month, the FDA released a letter announcing a new focus on radiation-emitting products. Here's the core of the letter:In order to reduce the number of under-doses, over-doses, and misaligned exposures from therapeutic radiation the FDA is taking several...

FDA takes it up a notch: A fresh look at radiation emitting equipment regulation, and what about EHRs?

Posted on April 21, 2010
Earlier this month, the FDA released a letter announcing a new focus on radiation-emitting products. Here's the core of the letter:In order to reduce the number of under-doses, over-doses, and misaligned exposures from therapeutic radiation the FDA is taking several...

2011 IPPS draft rule released by CMS: Good news, bad news for hospitals

Posted on April 19, 2010
The good news is that the acute hospital market basket update in Medicare payment proposed in the 2011 IPPS draft rule released by CMS on April 19 (to be published in the Federal Register on May 4) is 2.4% (subject...

I got 'bent: Bicycling, revolution, and a worthy cause

Posted on April 19, 2010
Those of you beyond the borders of the People's Republic of Massachusetts may not know that today is Patriots' Day -- a state holiday -- though you may know that it's Marathon Monday, the day of the annual running of...

2011 IPPS draft rule released by CMS: Good news, bad news for hospitals

Posted on April 19, 2010
The good news is that the acute hospital market basket update in Medicare payment proposed in the 2011 IPPS draft rule released by CMS on April 19 (to be published in the Federal Register on May 4) is 2.4% (subject...

Health Wonk Review: Block That Metaphor!

Posted on April 15, 2010
I'm not a superstitious man, but April 15th is fraught with doom, linked as it is to death and taxes ... among other themes, as we will explore in this edition of Health Wonk Review. For that reason, and due...

Health Wonk Review: Block That Metaphor!

Posted on April 15, 2010
I'm not a superstitious man, but April 15th is fraught with doom, linked as it is to death and taxes ... among other themes, as we will explore in this edition of Health Wonk Review. For that reason, and due...

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