Click Here to view a replay of the Webinar!  Compliance Officers are active participants in their organization's efforts to achieve Meaningful Use and meet the CMS goals to improve quality, engage patients and families, improve care coordination, improve public health, and ensure adequate privacy and security protections for personal health information.

On April 17, 2009, HHS issued guidance specifying the technologies and methodologies that render protected health information unusable, unreadable, or indecipherable to unauthorized individuals, as required by the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act passed as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. The guidance was developed through a joint effort by OCR, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, and CMS.