The Affordable Care Act (ACA), as part of its cost containment efforts, empowered the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to adopt electronic transfer standards in an interim final rule with comment period amending the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) electronic transaction standards. HHS did so on (...) [Read More]
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Twenty-first century health care will revolve around healthcare information technology (HIT) with increasing demand to decrease cost and increase high quality outcomes. Ober|Kaler’s Healthcare Information Technology and Privacy Group is significantly involved in the operational, contractual and regulatory aspects of the privacy and security of medical information and the use of health care information technology in the industry. We represent licensed health care providers and facilities and those who do business with them as they move into a new electronic era with unique privacy and security concerns under HIPAA and its implementing regulations and extensive changes of the HITECH Act.
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