For this assignment please complete a 3-5 page paper using APA formatting providing an overview of the three topics and answer the following questions:

How has HIPAA impacted healthcare over the past 10 years?

Has it made access to protected health information harder to obtain or provided the rules/ regulations that were greatly needed? How has HITECH helped improve the quality of EHRs? Has meaningful use helped increase or decrease payment to physicians and hospitals?

In your opinion, has the Affordable Care Act helped individuals or made it more difficult for some to pay their healthcare premiums? Defend your response.