Question

Provide an overview of HITECH and how it relates to HIPPA. Discuss current electronic security measures. The text states that most breaches in security are physical in nature. Do you think we will ever have a completely secure network? Do you think this HITECH has/is achieving what legislators hoped for? What are some barriers to implementing the legislation?

Answer 1

For the electronic security measures such as data encryption so that the information can be prevented and can not be transferred from one system to another. To prevent the data misuse, reduction of the system accessibility by others it is necessary to ha e password which only few reliable staff members should know.

The HITECH Act ie. Health Information Technology for Economic and clinical Health Act is important as it mainly fows on motivation of implemen- tation of "EHR in the healthcare organization The HIPAA ( Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) fous on the privacy of the patient's healthcare information The HITECH Act also focus on privacy and Security protections which are available under HIPAA. So, both fourses on the privacy prevention

HITECH has provides better result as under the provision of HIPAA. It provides privacy as well as safety to the data which are electronically saved. The some of the barriers to implementing the legislation such the high cost of implementation, having sound knowledge etc.