Strategy on Reducing Regulatory and Administrative Burden Relating to the Use of Health IT and EHRs:

The Strategy on Reducing Regulatory and Administrative Burden Relating to the Use of Health IT and EHRs draft has been released for...

4 E-Discovery Pitfalls Judges Wish More People Avoided

Federal judges at Exterro’s inFusion conference highlighted four areas for e-discovery improvements by the average lawyer. 1) Be specific...

New ASTM Audit Trail Production Standard: An Interview with Nursine Jackson

In 2017, ASTM, an international standard organization, withdrew standard ASTM E2147 – 01, the Standard Specification for Audit and...

Will patient advocates and healthcare transparency change healthcare law?

Leilani Schweitzer shared her emotional experience about losing her child at Stanford University Hospital. The machines that her baby...

Do you have the complete medical record? A discovery plan can help.

You practice healthcare law and just received a patient’s medical record. How can you be sure this is the complete medical record? Unless...

A Decade after the HITECH Act, CMS’s Verma Reinforces Health Data Interoperability

It will be almost a decade since the enactment of the milestone HITECH Act in 2009 (via ARRA), which promoted EHR adoption and bolstered...

Senate bills include ‘common sense’ mandates around PDMPs and e-prescribing

Provisions of two bills introduced in the Senate this week feature new requirements for prescription drug monitoring programs and...

Health Data Governance and Healthcare Litigation

Now that EHRs have been widely implemented, data integrity efforts are being deployed to improve EHR quality. To aid in this effort,...

FL Orthopedics Practice Sues Allscripts Over Ransomware Attack

Sufrside Non-surgical Orthopedics has filed a class-action lawsuit against Allscripts EHR vendor due to the ransomware attack in...

Allscripts to Acquire Practice Fusion in $100M Cash Deal

Practice Fusion, utilized by small and independent physicians as an affordable EHR solution, will be acquired by Allscripts for $100M. In...

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