The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act signed by President Obama last month includes a new initiative to create standard electronic health records over the next few years. Since a standard way to exchange health information opens up the possibility of a hacker attack, the federal government is creating new rules to protect the health records.

In this episode of eIQcast, Ross Levanto interviews eIQnetworks Product Evangelist John Linkous. They walk through the new initiative outlined in the act and the timeline for the new IT rules addressing electronic record protection.

Running time: 11:22