What Is the HIPAA Privacy Rule? A Business Associate's Guide to PHI Uses and Disclosures
Definition of Business Associate. Core definition. A business associate is any person or entity...
What Is HIPAA PHI? What Counts, What Doesn’t, and Why It Matters
Definition of Protected Health Information. Protected Health Information (PHI) is individually i...
What Information Does HIPAA Protect? A Practical Decision Tree to Identify PHI vs. Non‑PHI
Defining Protected Health Information. Under HIPAA, protected health information (PHI) is indivi...
What Does PHI Include Under HIPAA? A Context‑First Inclusion Test With Exceptions and De‑Identification Rules
Definition of PHI Under HIPAA. The context‑first inclusion test. Under the HIPAA Privacy Rule, ...
HIPAA Security Rule’s 3 Safeguards: A Plain-English Comparison of Administrative, Physical, and Technical Controls
The HIPAA Security Rule organizes protections for electronic protected health information (ePHI) ...
What Are HIPAA Physical Safeguards? Facility Access, Workstations, and Device/Media Controls Explained
Facility Access Controls. Purpose and scope. Facility Access Controls govern who can enter area...
HIPAA Security Rule Standards Crosswalk: Mapping 45 CFR 164.306–316 to NIST 800-53 and ISO 27001
This guide presents a practical compliance crosswalk that links the HIPAA Security Rule (45 CFR 1...
Covered Entities Under HIPAA: Edge Cases, Hybrid Entities, and Common Misclassifications
Understanding when HIPAA applies hinges on who is a covered entity, where hybrid status narrows c...
What Does HIPAA Protect? PHI in Any Format—Oral, Paper, and Electronic
HIPAA protects protected health information (PHI) wherever it lives or travels—spoken in a clinic...
Why the HIPAA Security Rule Exists: Its Purpose in Protecting ePHI’s Confidentiality, Integrity, and Availability
The HIPAA Security Rule exists to safeguard electronic Protected Health Information (ePHI) so tha...
HIPAA Technical Safeguards: Aligning with NIST CSF and CIS Controls
Protecting Electronic Protected Health Information (ePHI) depends on strong technical safeguards ...
The HIPAA Privacy Rule for Hybrid Entities: Designating and Governing Healthcare Components
The HIPAA Privacy Rule for hybrid entities lets a single legal entity separate its covered functi...
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