A Healthy Approach to Patient Privacy – HIPAA – Security Threat ...

... Your Business with HIPAA/HITECH (June 11, 2010). In February 2009, President Obama signed into law the American Recovery Reinvestment Act (ARRA), an economic stimulus package that included new Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (continue reading. ... This change demonstrated the massive penalties to the sum of millions of dollars that can result from the privacy penalty structure that followed the 2009 HIPAA amendments and the HITECH Act. ...