Legal and Compliance

The 21st Century Cures Act is shaking up the healthcare industry, and the expansive nature of the legislation complicates compliance. At ChartRequest, we understand that hectic healthcare environments can make reading 320 dense pages of legislation difficult.

On July 15, 2022, the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced their most recent batch of healthcare organizations penalized for impeding patients’ rights in regards to their medical records.

When crafting the Omnibus Final Rule, HHS wanted to incorporate provisions of the HITECH Rule into HIPAA to boost business associate accountability.

It can be hard to visualize abstract concepts, so let’s pretend that the inside of your house is transmitted data. To make sure people don’t enter without your permission, you likely use a lock on the front door.

Individually Identifiable Health Information and Protected Health Information are similar. Here’s how you can tell them apart.

HIPAA exists to regulate protected health information (PHI) and protect patient privacy. While these regulations are essential for the secure transmission of electronic health records (EHR), they can certainly burden covered entities and their business associates.

Threat vectors are the various avenues of breach used by hackers and other cybercriminals to access sensitive information for personal gain.

he Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act was passed in 2009 as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA).

HHS developed the Breach Notification Rule as an addition to HIPAA to ensure covered entities and business associates take responsibility for and inform patients of breaches to their protected health information. In this article, we’ll go over what your team needs to know to help you ensure complian

Protecting patient PHI is a mandatory aspect of healthcare today, so the Security Rule regulates how and when medical information can be disclosed.

The Privacy Rule was one of the first examples of legislation in the United States that enhanced patient rights. This rule is the first addition to HIPAA, and it continues to shape how medical records are handled. In this post, we will cover what you need to know to be compliant with the Privacy Rule.