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This interim final rule from the Department of Health and Human Services creates streamlined standards for electronic funds transfers and electronic remittance advice, including using a trace number to match remittance advice to EFT payments.

Final rule outlines how certain consumer and employer groups can access Medicare claims data to conduct research on the quality of care. The rule spells out privacy and security requirements and sets penalties for misuse of the data.

This final rule establishes guidelines for Accountable Care Organizations as called for under healthcare reform. ACOs are groups of providers that collaborate to offer all necessary treatment for Medicare beneficiaries in an effort to cut costs and improve the quality of care. Among the rule's requirements is granting...

The Department of Defense and two other government agencies have issued a proposed rule designed to help ensure that government contractors provide adequate privacy training to their staff members.

The Department of Health and Human Services' Office for Civil Rights provided a report to Congress on health information breaches from September 2009 through 2010, as required under the HITECH Act. Nearly 7.9 million Americans were affected by almost 30,800 health information breaches, according to the report.

The Department of Health and Human Services' Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology is soliciting public comments on metadata standards to support nationwide electronic health information exchange.

This advance notice of proposed rulemaking seeks comments on plans for changing the regulations overseeing research on human subjects. The rule now in place, known as the Common Rule, has been in effect for 20 years. Regulators are seeking feedback on a plan to establish mandatory data security and information...

This proposed rule describes standards for online state insurance exchanges called for under the healthcare reform legislation passed in 2010. Among its many provisions are guidelines for privacy and security.

A Government Accountability Office report advises the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to do more to fully implement its Integrated Data Repository and One Program Integrity efforts to combat fraud.

Notice of plans by the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, Office of the Inspector General, to use a new Federal Employees Health Benefits Program Claims Data Warehouse to access claims data for the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program carriers for audit and investigative purposes.