The Meaningful Use of HITECH Act 2009
In 2009, the USA government signed the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) into law as a part of the already existing America Recovery and Reinvestment Act (2009). The primary objective of the Act is to ensure a secure and healthy adoption of the health information technology for social health developments. The Act led to a series of changes in the health industry including with the methods used to collect, analyze, and store medical data (USA Department of Health and Human Services, 2014). The Act has four subtitles that seek to promote the meaning use of the health information data without any intentional or unintentional risks to the human rights including the rights to privacy. For the past five years, the USA population has engaged in a debate on the applicability of the HITECH Act and the merits and demerits in relevance to the meaningful use as explained in the first Subtitle, ‘improving health Care Quality and Services.'