Title: Administrative Law Judge rules in favor of OCR enforcement, requiring Lincare, Inc. to pay $239,800

URL: https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2016/02/03/administrative-law-judge-rules-favor-ocr-enforcement-requiring-lincare-inc-pay-penalties.html

Description: A U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) has ruled that Lincare, Inc. (Lincare) violated the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) Privacy Rule and granted summary judgment to the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) on all issues, requiring Lincare to pay $239,800 in civil money penalties (CMPs) imposed by OCR.

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URL: https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2016/03/16/155-million-settlement-underscores-importance-executing-hipaa-business-associate-agreements.html

Description: North Memorial Health Care of Minnesota has agreed to pay $1,550,000 to settle charges that it potentially violated HIPAA.

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Title: Improper disclosure of research participants' protected health information results in $3.9 million HIPAA settlement

URL: https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2016/03/17/improper-disclosure-research-participants-protected-health-information-results-in-hipaa-settlement.html

Description: Feinstein Institute for Medical Research agreed to pay $3.9 million to settle potential HIPAA violations and will undertake a substantial corrective action plan.Â

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Title: HHS Announces $1.5 Million in Funding Opportunities to Advance Common Health Data Standards

URL: https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2016/05/09/hhs-announces-millions-in-funding-opportunities-to-advance-common-health-data-standards.html

Description: HHS today released two funding opportunities, offered by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC), worth $1.5 million designed to build on the efforts of the federal government and private industry around the use of common standards that support the sharing of health information to improve the delivery of care.

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Title: ONC announces Phase 1 winners of Consumer Health Data Aggregator and Provider User Experience Challenges

URL: https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2016/07/18/onc-announces-phase-1-winners-consumer-health-data-aggregator-and-provider-user-experience.html

Description: Today the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) announced the Phase 1 winners of two application (app) challenges to make electronic health information easier to access and use for both consumers and providers. Applicants were challenged to use the Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR®) standard and open application programming interfaces (APIs), which are modern resources that make it easier to retrieve and share information superseding what currently exist in most EHRs.

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Title: ONC announces Blockchain challenge winners

URL: https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2016/08/29/onc-announces-blockchain-challenge-winners.html

Description: The Department of Health and Human Services' Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) today announced the winners of the Use of Blockchain in Health IT and Health-related Research Challenge.

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Title: EHR contract guide and Health IT Playbook help clinicians and hospitals get the most out of health information technology

URL: https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2016/09/26/ehr-contract-guide-and-health-it-playbook-help-clinicians-and-hospitals-get-most-out-health.html

Description: The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' (HHS) Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) today released two practical, easy-to-understand tools to help health care providers get the most out of their health information technology (health IT), such as electronic health records (EHRs): an EHR contract guide and a newly expanded Health IT Playbook.

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Title: HHS Awards $1.5 million to Improve Information Flow for Patients and Providers

URL: https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2016/09/28/hhs-awards-1-5-million-improve-information-flow-patients-and-providers.html

Description: The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) today announced seven recipients of two Cooperative Agreement programs to improve the flow of health information.

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Title: National Patient Safety Efforts Save 125,000 Lives and Nearly $28 Billion in Costs

URL: https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2016/12/12/national-patient-safety-efforts-save-125000-lives-and-nearly-28-billion-costs.html

Description: A report released by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) today shows that nationwide efforts to make health care safer are paying off.Â

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