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The History of Healthcare Compliance

MedTrainer

Licensing and credentialing were introduced to regulate healthcare professionals and ensure minimum standards of care. HITECH Act (2009): The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act incentivized the adoption of electronic health records (EHRs) and increased penalties for data breaches.

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How the Fifty States View Electronic Data as a “Product”

Drug & Device Law

2009 WL 1142570, at *8 (Conn. April 1, 2009) (contract to revise and encrypt plaintiff’s existing software did not involve a UCC good); Bobryk v. 2009); see also Data Processing Services, Inc. 2009), aff’d in part & rev’d in part on irrelevant grounds , 659 F.3d Thomas Nelson Publishing , 2009 WL 612385, at *2 (E.D.