The HITECH Act is a law that aims to expand the use of electronic health records in the U.S. It was part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. The number of acute care hospitals deploying EHRs has increased from 28% in 2011 to 84% in 2015. With EHR adoption becoming more and more universal, it’s the law’s privacy and security provisions that are most important today. The HITech Act also tightened the rules laid down by the pre-existing HIPAA law to more and different kinds of businesses.”]