If your company collects, stores, or exchanges health data, it is crucial that you understand the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). HIPAA can
Last month Virginia joined California as the second U.S. state to enact comprehensive data privacy legislation—the Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act (CDPA). States are moving
When should American Health Tech companies conform to non–US laws? When your business collects data from individuals outside of the US: In the case of
HIPAA has been a brick wall for data access for health companies. Legitimate? Yes, we always want to protect health data. But we also want
As health tech companies solidify their budgets and agendas amidst the continued pandemic, they should consider these prominent health regulatory changes expected in 2021:
Many virtual care platforms claim to be EHR integrated. But often, there are many versions of this truth. As many provider groups are currently looking for telehealth solutions that are EHR integrated, we wanted to provide some clarity around the fundamental elements that define EHR integration.
Today, leadership at the US Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) stated that use of virtual care is here to stay. Almost all providers who would entertain virtual health delivery in response to the COVID pandemic have signed onto “a” system at this point.
Medical providers who offer and promote virtual health for their patients can differentiate themselves as leaders during this time when practice volume is largely down across the board. Virtual care done right creates new revenue streams …
Since the COVID-19 shelter-in-place orders were announced across the US in March, the use of virtual care technologies for patient visits within ambulatory clinics has increased from under 10% to over 70%. During the first weeks of March, providers scrambled to simply find any virtual care technologies to help keep their “doors” open to their patients.
Last week, Practice Fusion, an electronic health records (EHR) company, was fined $145 million for setting up a business arrangement that violated the federal Anti-Kickback Statute. This law prevents anyone from offering, soliciting, paying, or receiving anything of value in order to induce referrals or generate federal healthcare business.
