Providers shouldn’t cite the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act as a reason to disclose a patient’s abortion plan to law enforcement, the Health and Human Services Department said Wednesday. Under HIPAA, healthcare providers are allowed to disclose—including to law enforcement— a patient’s medical information if they believe it’s needed to prevent or lessen a “serious and imminent threat” to […]
Challenges to Strengthening Cybersecurity in Healthcare The federal government has been working to help industries beef up their controls, from funding nascent cybersecurity research in the 1970s to establishing the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency in 2018 and passing the Cyber Incident Reporting for Critical Infrastructure Act in 2022. Ultimately, federal agencies depend on private network administrators to do their […]
Dive Brief: President Joe Biden has signed into law a bill requiring the Department of Veterans Affairs to be more transparent about the cost and performance of its beleaguered electronic health records modernization program. The bill, called the VA Electronic Health Record Transparency Act, requires the VA to report the program’s costs to congressional committees on a quarterly basis, including […]
A judge on Thursday issued a temporary block on Florida’s 15-week abortion ban one day before it was set to go into effect. The law, which is not a trigger law like other states have set into effect, is modeled after Mississippi’s own 15-week abortion ban that was heard in front of the Supreme Court and ultimately led to Roe […]
“Saint Luke’s Health System is aware of and continues to closely monitor legal developments regarding Missouri’s abortion trigger law, including recent comments from the Missouri Attorney General’s Office and the Governor of Missouri regarding the use of emergency contraceptives,” St. Luke’s said Wednesday. “Following further internal review, Saint Luke’s will now resume providing emergency contraceptives, under new protocols, at all […]
Healthcare and senior living design firm Erdman (Madison, Wis.) has named Janet Lively McCauley as vice president, business development for healthcare. McCauley will lead the firm’s healthcare work across the country. She has more than 20 years of business development experience serving in various executive roles.
Dive Brief: Healthcare providers are not permitted to disclose patient health information unless faced with a court order, the HHS said Wednesday in an attempt to provide clarity following the overturning of Roe v. Wade. In the absence of a court order, federal privacy rules about sharing health information — like whether a person obtained an abortion — is not […]
Pfizer on Thursday announced it had submitted an application to receive full approval from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its COVID-19 antiviral Paxlovid for use in high-risk individuals. The FDA in December issued an emergency use authorization for Paxlovid to be used as treatment of mild-to-moderate COVID-19 in adults and children over the age of 12 who are […]
U.S. health officials said Wednesday they have agreed to purchase another 105 million doses of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine in anticipation of a fall booster campaign. The $3.2 billion deal announced by the Biden administration comes as federal scientists consider how to update the vaccines to better protect Americans from the rapidly evolving virus. Federal officials said the purchase agreement includes […]
Emory Healthcare’s musculoskeletal service line has been expanding for decades, growing in services as well as footprint around the metro Atlanta area. It’s most recent addition—the new 180,000-square-foot outpatient Emory Musculoskeletal Institute in Atlanta, part of Emory University’s Emory Healthcare—embodies a lot of the lessons and ideas gathered along that journey. “The facility was an evolution of design, test, iterate […]