Clearly, define the impact of HIPAA and HITECH regulations on health care systems for the future with mention to state and federal differences. HIPAA which is referred to as the federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act that was put to action in the year 1996. The main purpose of this act is to uncomplicate the maintenance of the insurance policies, uphold their confidentiality and subsequently safely store the information for reference. HIPAA also equally aims in ensuring the health care setups together with the health organizations take control of the management expenses and costs. Consequently, HIPAA has set numerous rules and regulations that relate to various functions plus the events of disclosure of the personal information of the individual's health information (also termed as protected health information). Moreover, HIPAA aims to work very efficiently to make sure that the disclosure of personal information is conducted only to permit high-quality health care. According to National Council of State Legislatures (NCSL), the office of the president signed the Affordable Care Act, from which there will be interoperable and safe standards as well as procedures to enable electronic admission of the persons in the federal and state human and health service programs. (Richards 2009)

On the other hand, HITECH which refers to The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health is an act that looks upon setting new goals for the expansion of the role of states...

The sole objective of this act is to increase the number of health care providers through financial incentives such as; training, giving education plus some other actions led by the state. The act on Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health passed was passed as a part of the USA Recovery and Reinvestment Act, marking the HIE (Health Information Exchange) as the priority. HITECH has put standards by supplying reasonable resources of planning, use, and deployment and even has certified the mandates of HER. (Glenn & Monteith 2014)
Moreover, on state and federal differences, HIPAA and HITECH Privacy Rule establishes a ground of federal protections. For instance, the existing federal or state laws that give more health information privacy protections or otherwise is not in contradiction with the Rule that remains in effect. Like a patchwork quilt, they depend on Privacy Rule protections. Subsequently, the Privacy Rule will not pre-empt or instead override a state law that reports of disease or an injury or for the conduct of public health surveillance and investigation. (Richards 2009)

Define how the regulations will modify the implementation and ongoing use of software systems that maintain patient data.

HITECH has posted not only opportunities but also some challenges to health care providers. The implementation of EHR gives an elaborate,…