The Department of Health and Human Services is making stakeholders aware of the availability of the International Da Vinci Project Report. The notice provides the location and information which includes test results from the use of the HL7 FHIR standards approved for use under the HIPAA exceptions process at Title 45 CFR § 162.940.
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From KFF Health News Network – Their latest podcast, What the Health, Members of Congress are back in Washington, and Republicans are facing hard decisions on how to reduce Medicaid spending, even as new polling shows that would be unpopular among their voters.
HHS announced reorganization plans that will combines personnel cuts, centralization of functions, and consolidation of their divisions.
Steven Posnack, MS, MHS has been named Acting Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy and the National Coordinator for Health Information technology for the Department of Health and Human Services.
On February 13, 2025 Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. was sworn in as 26th Secretary at HHS, and following President Trump signs Executive Order to “Make America Healthy Again”. So finally we have someone that wants us to be healthy?
By Matt Fisher – Prior to the changeover of the administration, the HHS Office for Civil Rights went on a bit of a HIPAA settlement bender. The fast pace of announced settlements felt a bit like a clearing of the decks. The various settlements continued recent trends around the issues being selected by OCR for settlement along with the still random amount of settlements.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced seven winners of the KidneyX Sustainability Prize, designed to incentivize development of solutions to reduce water or power usage during dialysis care.
By Matt Fisher – On January 6, 2025, the Department of Health and Human Services officially published a notice of proposed rulemaking to modify and update the HIPAA Security Rule. The timing of the proposed rule leaves any sort of immediate action with a lot of uncertainty (changing administrations bring changing priorities and delays).
The Artificial Intelligence (AI) Strategic Plan is setting a vision for how AI can revolutionize health care, human services, and public health. Read the Strategic Plan.