HITECH Compliance

The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act began in 2009 as an incentive to encourage the adoption of electronic health records, with the intent of reducing healthcare costs and improving patient care. The HITECH Act includes technology mandates to enable the secure transmission of protected health information (PHI), and establish interoperability between systems, and between healthcare constituents.

The HITECH Act includes financial incentives (and penalties) for meaningful use of EHRs being rolled out in stages through 2016. Currently the majority of the healthcare industry is focused on meaningful use Stage 2, which takes effect in 2014. HITECH incentives create a $5.8 million opportunity over four years for mid-sized hospital networks. And, civil penalties for willful neglect can be up to $250,000, with repeat/uncorrected violations escalating up to $1.5 million.

Are you prepared for 2014 and beyond?

Axway can help

The HITECH Act is largely about interoperability and enabling the secure flow of data within healthcare communities. Organizations must be able to track, manage and report on data that moves across systems and throughout their ecosystems, and the data must be usable by the recipient.

Axway enables you to quickly establish connections for the safe, secure exchange of PHI between those that create health records and the people and systems that need access to them. You can also proactively track and manage each transmission and present executive dashboards to compliance officers and administrators, and technical dashboards to IT, making compliance and information management faster and easier.