A February 13 article in Bloomberg BNA's Health IT Law & Industry Report and other publications, "Trump Budget Takes an Ax to Health-Care IT Agency," ...

A May 16 article, "U.K. Hospital Ransomware Attacks Show Need for Software Updates," in Bloomberg BNA's Privacy Law Watch and other publications discussed last week's ransomware attacks that hit hundreds of thousands of computers worldwide and crippled more than 16 British hospitals.

A September 20 article in Bloomberg BNA's Health Care Daily Report and other publications, entitled "Is the Federal Insurance Exchange Secure?,"...

When law enforcement officials execute warrants for electronic data, they usually create a mirror image of hard drives and other electronic storage media.

In a press release, Day Pitney LLP announced the availability of its updated HIPAA Self-Assessment Tool 2.0, designed to provide an easy and cost-effective way for...

Included as part of its final rule on the Conditions of Participation for Home Health Agencies, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) added another six months to its existing ban preventing non-emergency ambulance suppliers and home health care agencies in six states from enrolling in Medicare and Medicaid as part of an ongoing effort to combat fraud.

St. Joseph Health, an integrated delivery system based in Irvine, California, has reached an agreement with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) under which it will pay more than $2.1 million to settle alleged HIPAA violations. HHS announced the settlement on October 18.

CareCore National LLC, a healthcare utilization management company, agreed earlier this month to pay $54 million to settle allegations that it allowed its insurance company customers to inappropriately bill the Medicare and Medicaid programs.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced through a fact sheet released on October 31 that it is again delaying the new Medicare Part D rule requiring physicians and other prescribers to enroll in Medicare before prescribing drugs under Medicare Part D.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has proposed the elimination of bundled payment program initiatives whose implementation has already been twice delayed, as previously discussed here.

Day Pitney healthcare law attorney Eric Fader was quoted extensively in a June 24 Law360 article titled "5 Lessons From HIPAA Record-Dumping Settlement."

In final guidance published on September 6, the U. S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) provided manufacturers with recommendations for ensuring interoperable medical devices are safely and securely designed and developed through a recently published final guidance.

The HIPAA Privacy Rule requires every health plan to provide a Notice of Privacy Practices (NPP) to all plan participants.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) just published a new guide to help hospitals and physicians better understand electronic health record (EHR) contracts ..

As previously posted on The Nano Newswire, throughout November, the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (CNSE) at the University of Albany is hosting "NANOvember" a month-long celebration of nanotechnology.

At Tufts University there now exists the worlds smallest electric motor.

On November 13, Carl Merino co-presented on "Acquiring U.S. or UK Real Estate" at the U.S./UK Tax and Estate Planning Conference, sponsored by Frank Hirth and held in London, UK.

The next step in the process will be for states to decide whether to adopt the revised NAIC Model Act, which may be an uphill battle in states with high HMO penetration.

In response, the IRS released final regulations on June 11 designed to prohibit taxpayers from circumventing this type of SALT limitation.

This is good news, which removes a concern some had raised about making larger gifts now.