This tip lists the major rules that health IT professionals must know, names the federal agency that drafted each one, and indicates when it will go into effect.
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The HITECH Act established an accelerated plan for hospitals and other health care providers to adopt electronic health record (EHR) systems and other technology to improve patient care and reduce medical errors. The HITECH Act also set in motion a series of rules -- from EHR meaningful use criteria and health IT certification to data breach notification and patient data security -- that will govern the way health IT is implemented, then used in the United States.
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CMS1 | Proposed | Summer 2010 | Must comply by 2011 or 2012 to receive maximum reimbursement. |
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1CMS: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid
Services
2ONC: Office of the National
Coordinator for Health IT
3IFR: Interim Final Rule
4DEA: Drug Enforcement Agency
5OCR: Office for Civil Rights
6HIPAA: Health
Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996
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This was first published in May 2010
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