HHS Issues Proposed Rule for Stage 3 of EHR Incentive Program

By Jessica Russell On March 30, 2015, the Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) published its proposed rule for Stage 3 the Electronic Health Record Incentive Program (the “EHR Program”). The EHR Program is a three stage program that provides incentive payments to eligible professionals and eligible hospitals and critical access hospitals (“CAHs”) (collectively, …

Legal and Regulatory Landscape for Mobile Health Technologies

By Brian Balow Mobile health (mHealth) technologies continue to expand in application and implementation. Over the past decade, the breadth of these technologies has grown from the creation of healthcare-directed websites (think WebMD) to implanted medical devices that constantly transmit and receive information (sometimes on a device-to-device basis). If you are either a provider or …