Remove Health Information Remove Interoperability Remove Medical Billing Remove Medicare
article thumbnail

Broadband expansion, $62M for ONC among pandemic relief package provisions

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

We are also grateful that Congress included Medicare coverage for telemental health services, just one of the many clinical specialties that benefitted from telehealth during the COVID-19 public health emergency," said Johnson. Although the U.S.

article thumbnail

Healthcare IT Regulations – What Needs to Be Added and What Needs to Be Removed

Healthcare IT Today

While the key components of privacy (administrative, uses and disclosures, individual rights, and general security) are all necessary today, I would put privacy, security, breach – and relevant 21 Century Cures Interoperability topics – all together and make sure everyone handling any type of sensitive information be subject to these rules.