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The practice was formed by nationally-known and widely-respected information technology attorney John R. Christiansen after many years in large, national law and consulting firm practice, to provide service more directly, flexibly and creatively.
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Posted on October 3, 2011
Our Dysfunctional Health Care System: A Different Kind of Information Problem
I don’t just work on health care from an IT angle; I also sometimes work on payment issues. And in this context it has occurred to me that we have also have information problems. They’re a little different from the kind you get in IT, but some day, when we have resolved all our problems […]
Posted on October 3, 2011
More HIPAA/HITECH and Joint IT Environments: Multiple Account Access
I’ve had some interesting follow-up from my previous posting about HIPAA/HITECH and cloud computing. One question was about my statement that users authorized by one Covered Entity whose Protected Health Information and applications are hosted in a joint IT environment shouldn’t have access to the Protected Health Information and applications of other Covered Entities hosted […]
Posted on October 3, 2011
Preliminary Thoughts on the HITECH/HIPAA NPRM: Modifications to the HIPAA Privacy, Security, and Enforcement Rules under the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act
The Notice of Proposed Rule Making (“NPRM”) for the proposed new regulations amending the HIPAA regulations as required by HITECH have just been informally published here. The formal publication date in the Federal Register is probably going to be July 14, 2010. This is a brief heads-up on a few issues the NPRM seems to […]
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