Healthcare Law Today
DECEMBER 12, 2022
The American Hospital Association (AHA), on behalf of its nearly 5,000 member hospitals and health systems, sent a letter urging the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) to take immediate action to allow telemedicine prescribing of controlled substances before the Public Health Emergency (PHE) waivers expire. Want to Learn More?
MedTrainer
JANUARY 12, 2024
The adoption of electronic health records (EHRs), telemedicine , and data analytics has brought about new challenges and opportunities. HITECH Act (2009): The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act incentivized the adoption of electronic health records (EHRs) and increased penalties for data breaches.
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Health Populi
NOVEMBER 11, 2021
Over a few years leading up to the COVID-19 emergence in early 2020, large employers had begun to adopt telemedicine in health plan benefits for workers, noted by the Business Group on Health’s membership surveys. KFF quantified firms offering telemedicine benefits, shown in Figure H here from the report.
HIPAA Journal
FEBRUARY 2, 2023
The rule took effect in 2009, yet compliance has not been enforced. GoodRx is a Santa Monica, CA-based provider of a telemedicine platform that includes a free-to-use website and mobile app that consumers can use to track prescription drug prices and obtain coupons that provide discounts on medications. That has now changed.
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
JANUARY 23, 2023
In 2023, HIMSS will not only be working to prop up telehealth further with really strong data on how these services help patients to achieve broader reform, but will also work at the state level with licensing boards to discuss how telemedicine can reach more patients.
MedTrainer
MARCH 28, 2024
Here are key dates in compliance history: 1965 – Medicare and Medicaid 1996 – Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) 2009 – Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act 2010 – Affordable Care Act (ACA) 2015 – Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA) 2023 – OIG Issues update – (..)
Health Populi
OCTOBER 8, 2018
In February 2009, President Barack Obama signed into law the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), less formally known as the Stimulus Bill. The policy’s acronym fully spelled-out was the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act of 2009. trillion in 2009 when HITECH was signed into law to $3.7
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