THE HITECH ACT – What Healthcare Organizations Need to Know about Access Compliance

The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH) evolves HIPAA from a reactive compliance requirement to a broader, more preventative approach. HITECH This act will impose more stringent regulatory and security requirements to the privacy rules of HIPAA, such as extending the covered entities to include business associates and related third party vendors in the healthcare industry, increased audit requirements, more proactive measures to protect personal healthcare information (PHI), increased civil penalties for a compliance violation of HIPAA, and stricter notification requirements of a security breaches of protected. Additionally, the HITECH Act authorizes state attorney generals to bring civil actions on behalf of state residents adversely affected or threatened by HIPAA violations of HIPAA.

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