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Here is a sample of the latest Inside Health Policy stories covering healthcare privacy, security and cybersecurity and HIPAA compliance, some of the hottest issues in healthcare. You can read these stories, and many more, with your free trial:

HHS Finalizes Health Care Claims, Attachments, Electronic Signature Rule
CMS on Friday (March 20) finalized a rule that establishes the first Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)-adopted standards for health care claims attachments, providing key guidance amid the Trump administration's interoperability expansion efforts.

OCR Director Offers Clues On Future Of Biden-Era HIPAA Cybersecurity Proposal
LAS VEGAS -- The director of HHS' Office for Civil Rights (OCR) signaled the Trump administration plans to deviate from the Biden administration's proposed update to Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) cybersecurity requirements but also adopt some of its provisions, such as making encryption, a currently "addressable implementation specification," required.

Health Companies Advised To Take Cyber Cautions After Stryker Attack
A key cybersecurity expert is sounding the alarm that a recent cyberattack on a major medical technology manufacturer may just be one instance of a larger campaign to target U.S. companies with a focus on health care companies.

HHS To Finalize Trump 1.0 HIPAA Proposal Expanding Patient Access To Medical Records
LAS VEGAS -- The HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) plans to finalize a Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Privacy Rule update put forward by the first Trump administration that supports the current administration's goal of empowering patients with greater access to their health information, the office's director said at HIMSS26.

EHR Vendors Welcome FDA Software Guidance But Request Updates
Electronic health record (EHR) companies are celebrating FDA's recent reversal of a Biden-era policy to update clinical decision support (CDS) software guidance to now hold that artificial intelligence and other tools living inside EHRs can fall outside federal medical device regulations even if they make one recommendation to a clinician; however, Oracle is pushing for changes to the guidance's "time-critical decision support" language and the EHR industry's trade association.

CMS' 'Emmy' Medicaid Work Req App Awaits Additional Policy Guidance
LAS VEGAS -- CMS is making progress on its "Eligibility Made Easy" (Emmy) mobile app for Medicaid recipients to prove they fulfill One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) work requirements, but agency technologists are awaiting guidance on what counts as hours worked for Uber drivers and are relying on recipients to self-attest community service hours.

ASTP, Lawmakers Broach AI, Privacy Issues Posed By Interoperability
Lawmakers questioned Thomas Keane, assistant secretary for technology policy and national coordinator for health information technology, about how the intersection of data privacy and artificial intelligence will factor into HHS' interoperability initiative during a health committee hearing on Thursday (March 5).

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