A landmark piece of health informatics legislation of 2009 was the Health Information Technology
for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act, which included financial support for rural
communities who did not have the money to invest into a PACS system to go filmless.
Additionally, healthcare reform under the HITECH Act made other major changes to health
informatics in the United States.
- Outline the five goals of the HITECH Act and briefly describe the programs that this legislation
supports. How have these programs become both transformational and challenging for the
average practitioner?
- Discuss the goals of the 2015-2020 Federal Health IT Strategic Plan. Pick one objective from
each goal and explain the positive or negative impact it has had on health information exchange.
- What is the Meaningful Use program? How did it change health outcomes? Provide a breakdown
of the principles behind the design, development, implementation, and evaluation of Electronic
Health Records (EHRs) as defined within the Meaningful Use program.
- Despite these initiatives, give three (3) possible reasons why providers resist the use of health
information technology at their organizations..
A landmark piece of health informatics legislation of 2009 w.pdf
1. A landmark piece of health informatics legislation of 2009 was the Health Information Technology
for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act, which included financial support for rural
communities who did not have the money to invest into a PACS system to go filmless.
Additionally, healthcare reform under the HITECH Act made other major changes to health
informatics in the United States.
- Outline the five goals of the HITECH Act and briefly describe the programs that this legislation
supports. How have these programs become both transformational and challenging for the
average practitioner?
- Discuss the goals of the 2015-2020 Federal Health IT Strategic Plan. Pick one objective from
each goal and explain the positive or negative impact it has had on health information exchange.
- What is the Meaningful Use program? How did it change health outcomes? Provide a breakdown
of the principles behind the design, development, implementation, and evaluation of Electronic
Health Records (EHRs) as defined within the Meaningful Use program.
- Despite these initiatives, give three (3) possible reasons why providers resist the use of health
information technology at their organizations.
