HITECH Act
Statute
United States
· 2009
The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act, enacted in 2009 as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, funded the nationwide adoption of electronic health records through the Meaningful Use incentive programs and significantly strengthened HIPAA — expanding enforcement, increasing penalties, extending obligations to business associates, and introducing breach-notification requirements. It is the law that put EHRs in nearly every US provider, creating the digitized substrate the later Cures Act interoperability rules act upon.
Sectoral regime. It binds the industries below; companies outside them
generally fall outside it.
Regions
Industries
Each links to that industry as a scored cohort — so the question "how ready is this sector for the regime that governs it?" becomes one you can actually look at.