Health Information Privacy Strengthened by New HHS Rule
July 9, 2010 in Healthy Aging by futureofaging
On July 8, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued a notice of proposed rulemaking to modify the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) Privacy, Security, and Enforcement Rules. The changes, which would expand individuals’ rights to access their information and restrict certain disclosures of protected health information, stem from the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act, which was enacted as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of…
Kathleen Sebelius
Kathleen Sebelius, secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), announced today a new grant program to help individuals and their caregivers better understand and navigate long-term care options.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) will work with the Administration on Aging (AoA) to award the grants, which will be funded by $60 million from the Affordable Care Act.
According to the HHS…
Kathleen Sebelius source: Wikipedia
On Wednesday, Kathleen Sebelius, secretary of the U.S. Department of
Health and Human Services (HHS), spent about an hour at the
Leadership Council of Aging Organizations (LCAO) meeting discussing health care reform. In addition to Rother, principals at the meeting were Jim Firman, Barbara Kennelly, and Ed Coyle.
Highlights:
Obama administration realizes they have won the health care reform battle, but will only win the war by timely…