The law that expanded HIPAA protections and promoted electronic health records and e-prescribing is called?

• A. The Affordable Care Act
• B. The HITECH Act
• C. Medicare Modernization Act
• D. Health Information Act

Answer: (B)

The law is the one that created incentives for adopting electronic health records and e-prescribing while strengthening privacy and security protections for health information. It expanded HIPAA by adding breach notification requirements, tightening enforcement, and increasing penalties, all to encourage widespread use of electronic health records. The combination of boosting EHR adoption and reinforcing HIPAA safeguards is what makes this statute the correct fit.

Other options are broader health reform or earlier legislation that didn’t focus specifically on expanding HIPAA protections or driving electronic health records and e-prescribing: one is a broad reform law, another predates the HIT era, and the last isn’t the federal HIPAA-era IT legislation.