9/9/2025 4:15:34 PM HHS Announces Crackdown on Health Data Blocking By Nancy Halstead Vicki Tankle In the first week of September, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced a renewed enforcement focus on...
9/9/2025 1:32:40 PM Texas Senate Bill No. 922 – 72-Hour Hold on Electronic Release of Sensitive Test Results By Tom Greeson Matthew Loughran Liyun Huang Texas has enacted a groundbreaking new law – Texas Senate Bill No. 922 (“S.B. 922”) that changes the way certain sensitive medical test...
3/18/2025 9:39:56 PM Information blocking victory in favor of access to health data By Nancy Halstead Vicki Tankle In a significant ruling among the first to analyze the application of information blocking regulations, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the...
7/16/2024 3:09:36 PM HHS Finalizes Rule on Health Care Provider Information Blocking Penalties By Nancy Halstead Vicki Tankle Garrison Ambrose Matthew Loughran +1 more... Show less The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (“ONC”)...
1/23/2024 12:33:18 AM ONC Finalizes Information Sharing and Algorithm Transparency Rule By Nancy Halstead Nicole Aiken-Shaban Matthew Loughran The Department of Health and Human Services Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) has published its...
7/7/2023 10:59:24 PM OIG Finalizes Information Blocking Penalties By Nancy Halstead Vicki Tankle Lauren Bentlage Three years after the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Office of the National Coordinator of Health Information Technology...
7/13/2022 6:50:39 PM ONC’s Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA): Impacts on Health Information Networks and Health Care Organizations By Nancy Halstead Vicki Tankle Andrew Hayes Wendell Bartnick +1 more... Show less The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) released...
12/14/2020 7:46:21 PM HHS proposes important changes to key aspects of HIPAA Privacy Rule By Nancy Halstead Brad Rostolsky Vicki Tankle The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR), the agency that enforces the Health Insurance...
11/2/2020 8:32:21 PM HHS further delays compliance for Interoperability and Information Blocking Rule By Nancy Halstead Vicki Tankle Lauren Bentlage Just two business days before the first of many critical components of the new 21st Century Cures Act Interoperability, Information...
10/2/2020 7:36:05 PM Patient access to health information at the forefront of government initiatives and scrutiny By Nancy Halstead Vicki Tankle Even amidst the chaos of a global pandemic, this year multiple U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) agencies have dialed in...
4/24/2020 2:41:35 AM HHS Delays Compliance for Sweeping Interoperability and Information Blocking Rules By Nancy Halstead Nicole Aiken-Shaban Vicki Tankle Lauren Bentlage +1 more... Show less Following more than a month of silence from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on the publication of its widely...
3/11/2020 11:20:30 AM HHS Finalizes Healthcare Interoperability and Information Blocking Rules By Nancy Halstead Vicki Tankle The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued eagerly anticipated and hotly debated companion interoperability and...