compliance & legal

Healthcare attorney and partner at Holland & Knight Zubin Khambatta discusses the CMS final rule related to Medicaid managed care and its provisions adding new compliance guardrails regarding state-directed payments.  

The ONC's new rules could include advancements around public health IT certification requirements, electronic prior authorization, patient engagement tools and refinement to info blocking rules, says Sean Sullivan, a partner at Alston & Bird.  

Robert Havasy, HIMSS senior director of informatics strategy, relays how the nonprofit works with governments to move healthcare and AI forward and the need to improve interoperability as artificial intelligence progresses in healthcare.

Dr. Don Rucker, chief strategy officer for 1upHealth, discusses TEFCA going live, ONC's Health IT Certification Program, key takeaways from the final HTI-1 and how ONC's certification rule may burden both providers and vendors.   

Melanie Rainer, Director of HHS' Office for Civil Rights, shares how OCR helps providers resume compliance by the August deadline under HIPAA rules when they deliver telehealth services.

Calum Yacoubian, director of healthcare strategy at IQVIA, outlines natural language processing use cases, such as aggregating data for population health initiatives and supporting rare disease diagnoses for precision medicine.

Gerry Blass, CEO of ComplyAssistant, and Frank Sinatra, CISO at Newark's University Hospital, discuss the voluntary Health Industry Cybersecurity Practices guide and strategies organizations can implement to ensure compliance.

Drew Ivan, Rhapsody's chief strategy officer, discusses how health systems can leverage digital solutions to manage data more efficiently while building regulatory compliance and flexibility into their IT infrastructure.

Matthew Fisher, general counsel at Carium, previews his upcoming HIMSS23 panel on how the Supreme Court's decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization caused conflicting rules and regulations nationwide and affected healthcare data and access.

Hospital leaders must focus on improving operations, building new revenue streams, and preventing regulatory risk, according to Nioura Ghazni, a partner in the corporate practice group of Sheppard Mullin’s San Francisco office.