Hospital & Healthcare Management June 11, 2022
The US Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights issued a request for comments earlier this spring regarding the cybersecurity rules and financial fines mandated under the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act.
The 2009 HITECH Act, which was revised in 2021, wasn’t simply the driving force behind federal EHR incentives that fueled massive adoption of health IT across the United States. The newly amended law also includes a number of privacy and security-related norms and restrictions. The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency is interested in how covered businesses are dealing with two of them: Certified Security Protocols and Civil Monetary Penalties and Settlement Cooperation.
Its request for information is intended to...
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