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To be pedantic, HIPAA was signed into law in 1996. Obama obviously had nothing to do with that. Technically the HITECH act was signed into law by Obama, in Feb 2009. But that was only a few weeks after he took office.

The Affortable Care Act is largely thanks to Obama. And it did add new regulations related to HIPAA and HITECH. But the core principals that you mentioned were already tehre.

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Just adding some links to support the above comment - HITEC was part of the "American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009" [1] following Hurricane Sandy. Additional clarifications for internet-enabled devices was released by the FDA in early 2015. [2]

[1] https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/PLAW-111publ5/html/PLAW-111pub...

[2] http://www.fda.gov/downloads/MedicalDevices/DeviceRegulation...

> HITEC was part of the "American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009" [1] following Hurricane Sandy.

No, Sandy was in 2012. HITECH was part of the ARRA, more commonly known as "the stimulus package".

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