Healthcare IT News June 9, 2022
HIMSS, MGMA and the Connected Health Initiative are among the groups who responded to HHS Office for Civil Rights’ call for comment on about privacy protections and monetary penalties.
Earlier this spring, the Office for Civil Rights in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services put out a call for comments about the cybersecurity provisions and monetary penalties stipulated by the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act.
The 2009 HITECH Act, which was amended in 2021, wasn’t just the primary driver of federal EHR incentives that enabled enormous uptake of health IT across the U.S. The newly-updated law also has a series of rules and regulations around privacy and security.
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