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2024-2030 Federal Health IT Strategic Plan Draft released

By Digital Health Law Group on April 13, 2024 • ( 0 )

In March 2024, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) under the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released a draft of its 2024-2030 Federal Health IT Strategic Plan (draft plan) for public… Read More ›
HHS seeks to increase Cybersecurity in the Health Care Sector

By Digital Health Law Group on February 28, 2024 • ( 0 )

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has been making efforts to increase cybersecurity in the health care sector and outlined its strategy in a concept paper released in December 2023. The paper stresses that both patient safety… Read More ›
AHA Files Suit Seeking to Preserve the Ability of Hospitals to Use Third Party Tracking Technologies on Public Webpages

By Digital Health Law Group on January 6, 2024 • ( 1 )

The American Hospital Association (AHA) is challenging a healthcare data privacy Bulletin issued by the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The Bulletin in question prohibits HIPAA-regulated entities from using third-party tracking… Read More ›

DEA TELEMEDICINE PRESCRIBING RULES TRACKING
2008 Ryan Haight Online Pharmacy Consumer Protection Act (Ryan Haight Act)
March, 2020 DEA Grants COVID-19 Public Health Emergency (PHE) Exceptions to Ryan Haight Act
3/1/2023 DEA Publishes the General Telemedicine & Buprenorphine Notices of Proposed Rulemaking
5/11/2023 DEA's First Extension of COVID-19 PHE Exceptions Begin, Coinciding with the End of the PHE
September 2023 DEA Holds Public Listening Sessions to Better Inform Rulemaking
11/11/2023 DEA's 2nd Extension of the COVID-19 PHE Exceptions Begins
Fall, 2024 DEA states it is Working to Promulgate new Standards or Safeguards by this Time-frame
12/31/2024 Expiration Date for Second Extension of COVID-19 PHE Exceptions

HOSPITAL PRICE TRANSPARENCY RULE TRACKING (45 CFR 180)
Beginning on 1/1/2024
- Hospitals subject to the Rule must make a good faith effort to ensure that their standard charge information in machine-readable files is true, accurate and complete (45 CFR 180.50(a)(3)(i)).
- Hospitals subject to the Rule must ensure that the public website they select to host their machine-readable file establishes a .txt file and a link in the footer of the website labelled "Price Transparency" that links directly to the publicly available web page that hosts the link to the machine-readable file as further specified in 45 CFR 180.50(d)(6).
Prior to 7/1/2024
- Hospitals subject to the Rule must include all data required by 45 CFR 180.50(b)(1) such as descriptions of each item or service provided by the hospital and gross charge information.
- Prior to this date, required information must be published in a single digital file that is in machine-readable format pursuant to 45 CFR 180.50 (c)(1).
Beginning 7/1/2024
- Hospitals subject to the Rule must affirm in their machine-readable files that they have included all applicable standard charge information and otherwise complied with 45 CFR 180.50(a)(3)(ii).
- Hospitals subject to the Rule must also encode in their machine-readable files all standard charge information required under 45 CFR 180.50(b)(2), such as hospital name, license number, location, and each type of standard charge.
- The machine-readable files of hospitals subject to the Rule must conform to a CMS template layout, data specifications, and data dictionary and hospitals must otherwise comply with 45 CFR 180.50(c)(2).

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2024-2030 Federal Health IT Strategic Plan Draft released

HHS seeks to increase Cybersecurity in the Health Care Sector

AHA Files Suit Seeking to Preserve the Ability of Hospitals to Use Third Party Tracking Technologies on Public Webpages