This first Health Information Access Week has brought together a range of perspectives on serving consumers, mitigating risks and deploying technology. We’ve been privileged to learn from experts who bring a lifetime of experience and insight to the changing...
With years of HIM leadership experience under my belt, my current role as Director of Corporate Compliance requires me to step back to see the big picture. As I read about the nineteenth OCR HIPAA settlement, it should give pause as to how we got here. HIM...
In 2020, The Office of the National Coordinator’s (ONC) and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ (CMS) released Regulations for Interoperability and Patient Access as required by the 21st Cures Act. Regulations increase access to medical information through...
The year 2021 has been punctuated by a flurry of regulatory activity around individuals’ ability to access their own health information. With access a hot button issue, the information blocking final rule went into effect April 5, compelling health care providers,...
It seems not too long ago I was living a completely normal “mom life.” Normal routines, happy family, and happy life. Eight years ago, seems like yesterday. Our world changed with one routine doctor’s visit and with one diagnostic test. I can remember that day very...
By Linda Kloss I first wrote about the value of uniform ROI practices throughout a health system in the fall of 2016. At the time, I cited risk mitigation and cost control as key drivers. I described the experiences of health systems who had achieved centralized...
