A major federal policy that has affected healthcare is the HITECH ACT. The HITCH ACT is designed to worth to provide the necessary assistance an technical support to providers, enable coordination an alignment within an among states, establish connection to the public health in case of emergencies, an assures the workforce is properly trained and equipped to be meaningful users of certified electronic health records. (Cite documentation) The HITECH ACT impacts providers by the use of electronic health records. Three particular functions have great potential in improving quality and care a reducing costs of health care levels. Clinical decision support tools, computerized physician order entry systems, and health information exchange. The clinical decision support provides the latest information about drugs, it can cross reference a patient allergy to a medication. Once a physician enters a new medication into the system, it can alert the doctor of a drug interaction. Electronic health records has improved patient safety with medication errors. The physician can now enter orders into the computer rather than on paper. This eliminates dangerous medical errors caused by poor penmanship. Once healthcare data is available electronically to providers, electronic health records can facilitate sharing of patient information. Many patients visit several different care providers. If for example a patient went in to see their primary care provider and that physician ordered a chest x-ray, this test result can be sent electronically to all the physicians who are currently taking care of this patient. This reduces healthcare costs by having redundant tests ordered because one provider does not have access to the clinical information stored at another provider’s location. With the EHR system many billing errors or inaccurate coding may be eliminated. The electronic health