From the course: CIPP/US Cert Prep: 2 Private Sector Privacy
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HIPAA
- [Instructor] The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, or HIPAA, is a comprehensive healthcare law that, among other things, regulates the security and privacy of health records. HIPAA applies to two categories of information. Protected health information, or PHI, is a broad category of individually identifiable health information. PHI includes information about an individual's current, past, or future health status that's collected in relation to the provision of healthcare, the processing of healthcare payments and insurance claims, or is used in facilitating the provisioning of healthcare. The rules surrounding PHI only apply to HIPAA-covered entities, a concept I'll discuss more in a moment. Electronic protected health information, or ePHI, must first meet the definition of PHI. ePHI is any PHI that is stored or transmitted by digital means. I mentioned earlier that the provisions of HIPAA apply only to…
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