McConnell, Pelosi say they'll get Covid vaccine soon – POLITICO

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McConnell, Pelosi say they’ll get Covid vaccine soon  POLITICO Congress close to striking deal on next round of COVID-19 relief  WPRI McConnell included $600 checks in COVID-19 stimulus plans after hearing that opposition could cost Republicans the Senate runoffs in Georgia, report says  Yahoo News McConnell took too long to get serious about COVID stimulus  Los Angeles Times Opinion ...

Flynn Says Trump Can Use Military to 'Rerun Election': 'It's Not Unprecedented' – The Daily Beast

17. December 2020 EHR, HIPAA 0
Flynn Says Trump Can Use Military to ‘Rerun Election’: ‘It’s Not Unprecedented’  The Daily Beast Grassley accuses Democrats of double-standard in asking GOP to defer to Biden on Cabinet: ‘Pretty darn rich’  Fox News Transition Stumbles Test Biden’s Bond With Capitol Hill  U.S. News & World Report Trump claims fired cybersecurity expert Chris Krebs was ‘excoriated’ during his ...

Russian hack against the U.S. government ‘will take years to overcome,’ former national intelligence official says – CNBC

17. December 2020 HIPAA 0
Russian hack against the U.S. government ‘will take years to overcome,’ former national intelligence official says  CNBC Former Trump adviser points finger at Russia for ‘brazen’ SolarWinds hack, calls for response  Fox News Russia Could Fake Government Emails After SolarWinds Hack: Ex-Trump Adviser Thomas Bossert  Newsweek With Trump silent, reprisals for hacks may fall to Biden  Associated Press May ...

Nuclear weapons agency breached amid massive cyber onslaught – POLITICO

17. December 2020 HIPAA 0
Nuclear weapons agency breached amid massive cyber onslaught  POLITICO U.S. Nuclear Weapons Agency Hacked as Part of Massive Cyber-Attack  TIME Hackers target agency securing nuclear weapons stockpile: reports – Business Insider  Business Insider Energy Department says it was hacked in suspected Russian campaign  NBC News Hack against U.S. called a ‘grave threat’: cybersecurity agency  pennlive.com View Full Coverage on Google ...

HHS to Disallow $200M in California Medicaid Funds Due to Unlawful Abortion Insurance Mandate; Refers Vermont Medical Center to DOJ for Lawsuit Over Conscience Violations

17. December 2020 EHR, EMR, Health, HIPAA 0
Today, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office for Civil Rights (OCR) makes two announcements regarding enforcement of federal conscience laws.  First, HHS will disallow $200 million in federal Medicaid funds going to California in the upcoming quarter due to the state illegally mandating that all health care plans subject to regulation ...

Winners of HHS Design-a-thon to Develop Innovative Digital Health Tools for COVID-19 At-Anywhere Diagnostic Tests Announced

17. December 2020 EHR, EMR, Health, HIPAA 0
Sixteen winning designs (listed below) selected from the HHS COVID-19 At-Anywhere Diagnostics Design-a-thon aim to increase speed, quality, comprehensiveness, and utility of SARS-CoV-2 diagnostic test data. This effort will help maintain visibility and increase reporting accuracy on SARS-CoV-2 infection rates across the country. Another contest objective is to ensure that all SARS-CoV-2 diagnostic tools can ...

HHS Increases and Begins Distributing Over $24 Billion in Phase 3 COVID-19 Provider Relief Funding

17. December 2020 EHR, EMR, Health, HIPAA 0
Today, the Trump Administration, through the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) is announcing it has completed review of Phase 3 applications from the Provider Relief Fund (PRF) program and will distribute $24.5 billion to over 70,000 providers. Up from the $20 billion originally planned, the addition of another $4.5 billion in funding is being ...

OCR Facilitates Safe Clergy Access for Patients at Mt. Sinai Hospital During COVID-19

17. December 2020 EHR, EMR, Health, HIPAA 0
Today, the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at the U.S Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announces the resolution of a religious discrimination complaint, thus ensuring clergy access to patients for religious purposes during the COVID-19 pandemic for the entire Mt. Sinai Health System in New York (Mt. Sinai). On August 5, 2020, a Jewish community ...