The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has proposed changes to the HIPAA Security Rule and the HITECH Act to bolster cybersecurity for electronic protected health information (ePHI). The proposal includes updated definitions, enhancing existing safeguards, improving tech safeguards, and updating organizational requirements. The measure is intended to address evolving threats and technological advancements in healthcare. Comments are being accepted until early March.
Going in-house in hospital application development
The document includes an Enterprise Taxonomy focused on Digital Health, Operations, Technology, and Business, while also mentioning node settings to exclude it from the Accelerate
