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Health Providers Beware of the New HITECH Act

Friday, June 18, 2010

The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act, or more commonly known as the HITECH Act, is part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. This act appears to put some teeth into the HIPAA regulation of 1996. The HITECH Act wants to provide some general and specific incentives for companies to adopt the electronic health record (EHR) systems for health organizations. With these incentives also comes greater increased privacy and security protections for consumers and potential increased liability for those that are not in compliance.

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