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Health Information Technology Timeline

By breyanna1111
  • Social Security Amendments

    Social Security Amendments

    Facilitated the creation of Medicare and Medicaid programs to provide federal health insurance for elderly and low-income populations
  • Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act

    Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act

    It was a landmark legislation created to protect the privacy of medical health records and expand health insurance coverage
  • Medicare Modernization Act

    Medicare Modernization Act

    Medicare programs resulting in Medicare part D , which made prescription drugs more affordable for patients
  • The Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act

    The Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act

    An an act that established a system of patient safety organizations and nation patient safety database
  • Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health

    Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health

    The HITECH act was enacted to promote the use of electronic health care software.

  • Meaningful Use Stage 1

    MU1 required providers to have a certified electronic health record and to demonstrate meaningful use of it.
  • Meaningful Use Stage 2

    Meaningful Use Stage 2

    MU2 concentrated on electronic medical record exchange and patient interaction.

  • Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act

    MACRA established a quality payment model to encourage value-based healthcare payment.
  • Tax Plan

    Tax Plan

    The new tax plan passed in December 2017 repeated the ACA's (Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act) individual mandate, which required most Americans to have a minimum level of health coverage.