This post goes over two recent executive orders and what it means for health IT developers, as well as the impact of recent DOGE force reductions at HHS. First, the administration’s February 18, 2025, Ensuring Accountability for All Agencies Executive Order has the potential have serious impacts on the health IT community. In short, it … Continue reading New Executive Orders On Regulations and DOGE Force Reductions
This blog has discussed the 21st Century Cures Act’s (“Cures”) prohibition against information blocking before through a legal perspective. This post will talk about what the prohibition means for one of the key stakeholder groups that it is meant to help: healthcare technology innovators. The good news is that healthcare data is getting cheaper and … Continue reading Information Blocking and Interoperability for Innovators
Starting in 2022, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) will require hospitals to measure themselves against the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT’s (“ONC”) Safety Assurance Factors for EHR Resilience (“SAFER”) guides. CMS is implementing this requirement through its programmatic authority.[1] This is legally significant because it may create a discoverable … Continue reading Will this make healthcare technology SAFER?
This blog’s second post introduced a general legal and regulatory framework for certified EHRs, and the applicability of the antikickback statute to health IT vendors. It also referenced how the False Claims Act can create risk because of health IT’s relationship with physician reimbursement. On January 27, 2020, the Department of Justice (“DOJ”) executed a … Continue reading Practice Fusion Part 1: The AKS and What It Means for You
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