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The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) became law in 2009 because of concerns of possible data breaches with EHR. Part of this act includes ________________, which is described as "HIPAA on steroids" because it greatly expands HIPAA compliance regulations.

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Part of this act includes increased penalties for violations of the HIPAA privacy and security rules

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The HITECH act encourage healthcare providers to use eletronic health records and improved privacy and security protections to healthcare data to avoid system invasion, data loss and hack attacks, moreover to protect the patients privacy and intimacy. This data loss represents a civil right violation.

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