HIPAA: 2. What is HITECH?
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In 2009, Congress passed the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act — HITECH. This sweeping law has implications for nearly every health care provider and organization in the medical industry.
What this course covers:
- What the HITECH Act is and why it passed
- How HITECH connects to and strengthens HIPAA
- Who the law affects across the medical industry
- Why HITECH still shapes compliance today
A short primer for anyone who needs to understand HITECHs role in HIPAA compliance.
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The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act, passed by Congress in 2009. It has implications for nearly every healthcare provider and organisation in the medical industry.
To accelerate the move to electronic health records nationwide — and, in doing so, to close gaps in how HIPAA protected information once it became digital.
It did not replace HIPAA; it strengthened it. HITECH widened who is directly accountable and tightened the consequences of failing to protect health information.
Greater accountability, firmer breach notification duties, and an enforcement regime with more weight behind it. Part two covers what those changes require in practice.
Part two. It follows the foundations in part one and sets up part three, which examines how HITECH reshaped the position of business associates.
