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Highlights
RWJF Offers Recommendations in Response to Wyden-Grassley Letter Requesting Comment on Ways to Enhance the Availability and Utility of Health Care- Related Data
Posted on August 14, 2014
On June 12, 2014, Senators Wyden and Grassley issued a letter requesting comments on ways to enhance the availability and usability of health care data, while also maintaining and protecting patient privacy. They key areas that stakeholders were requested to provide input on were:
1. What data sources should be made more broadly available?
2. How, in what form, and for what... Read More >
New Products on Integrated Care Models
Posted on August 7, 2014
An integrated care model is a dynamic approach to delivering health care services. Key to the delivery of integrated care is a high degree of collaboration and communication among all the health care providers involved in the continuum of care for any given patient. This model is designed to break-through the barriers that define the current fragmented and siloed nature of the health... Read More >
New Products on the Use and Disclosure of Mental Health Information
Posted on June 19, 2014
On the federal level, mental health information is governed as a form of protected health information (PHI), allowing for disclosure wihtout patient consent for treatment, payment and health care operations under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act's (HIPAA) Privacy Rule. One exception to this general rule of permitting the sharing of treatment information without... Read More >
New Products on the Common Rule
Posted on June 11, 2014
The Common Rule is a set of a federal regulations shared by fifteen Federal departments and agencies that govern all research involving human subjects conducted or supported by the relevant department or agency. With few exceptions, research institutions subject to the Common Rule must secure informed consent from each human subject, receive approval from an Institutional Review Board (IRB), and... Read More >
New Products on the Use of Information for Research Purposes
Posted on May 28, 2014
Researchers frequently create, collect, use, and/or share individually identifiable health information to conduct research. The HIPAA Privacy Rule dictates how research is defined, who is subject to its requirements, and what the requirements are to use individually identifiable information for research purposes. The HITECH Act's modifications to the HIPAA Privacy and Security Rule also... Read More >
New Products on Health Information Exchanges (HIEs)
Posted on April 17, 2014
For over a decade, stakeholders and policy-makers have been working to digitize the nation’s health care system to, among other goals, enable the electronic exchange of health information between providers. Recently these efforts have driven the creation of legal entities known as “Health Information Exchanges” (HIEs). HIEs are regionally-based groups of providers... Read More >
New Products on the Qualified Entity Program
Posted on April 11, 2014
A “Qualified Entity or QE” is an organization approved by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to produce performance reports on the quality and efficiency of health care providers and suppliers. The QE program was authorized by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) to encourage provider performance measurement and public reporting using Medicare... Read More >
New Products on Data Collection and Use in the New Health Insurance Marketplaces
Posted on March 27, 2014
With the open enrollment period for the Affordable Care Act’s Health Insurance marketplaces drawing to a close at the end of March 2014, potential applicants and others have expressed concern about the types and amount of information that marketplaces are collecting in order to enroll individuals and families in new Qualified Health Plans. The vast majority of marketplace enrollments... Read More >
New Products on CLIA and its 2014 Amendments
Posted on March 7, 2014
The CLIA Amendments of 1988 set forth the uniform federal regulatory quality standards for clinical laboratory testing of humans, except for clinical trials and research. CLIA empowers HHS to set the rules for laboratory testing and to certify labs, which authorizes them to conduct tests on specimens derived from humans for the purpose of diagnosis, health assessments, or prevention or... Read More >
New Products on FERPA
Posted on February 19, 2014
The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) generally requires education agencies and institutions to protect the privacy of student education records. Except in specified circumstances, education agencies and institutions must obtain the consent of a student or their parent/guardian before releasing education records.
To learn more about the complete scope of FERPA, including when... Read More >
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