The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act required the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to develop regulations protecting the privacy and security of certain health information.

SNAP Practice™ provides the transmission and storage of ePHI FOR Covered Entities and is relevant under the HITECH Act because it offers a "piece" of Meaningful Use which assists providers. Thus, our solutions need to be HIPAA compliant.

The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act as a part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act provided certain incentive payments made available to health care providers for the adoption and implementation of interoperable health information technology and qualified Electronic Health Records (EHR). Under the HITECH Act, two regulations have been released, one of which defines the “meaningful use” objectives that providers must meet to qualify for the incentive payments, and the other which identifies the technical capabilities required for certified EHR technology.

Meaningful Use is electronically capturing health information in a “structured format” using the information to track key clinical conditions and communicating that information for care coordination purposes, implementing clinical decision support tools to facilitate disease and medication management, and using EHRs to engage patients and families and reporting clinical quality measures and public health information.

Seamless Medical Systems™ has a Business Associate Agreement (BAA), which establishes the permitted and required uses and disclosures of Protected Health Information (PHI). The BAA for Seamless Medical Systems™ is included with the End User License Agreement (EULA).