What is the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)?The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, commonly known as HIPAA, provides data privacy and security measures for protecting medical information in the US. The legislation is designed to safeguard individuals' protected health information (PHI), such as Social Security Numbers, medical records, telephone numbers, etc. In 2009 the legislation was updated with HITECH (Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health), bringing additional compliance standards to businesses linked to healthcare. Read more about HIPAA Compliance.What's the difference between PII vs. PHI?HIPAA uses the term Protected Health Information (PHI) to refer to protected sensitive data, but the term is very similar to Personally Identifiable Information (PII), which is used in other compliance regimes. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) sets the basis for sensitive patient data protection with its Privacy and Security Rules. According to these rules, any organization that deals with protected health information (PHI) must have in place data security measures and follow them in order to ensure HIPAA compliance. Learn more about protecting PHI.What are the consequences of not protecting medical data?Unprotected health data can be easily leaked, lost, or stolen. A data breach can lead to regulatory fines, operational disruption, and loss of consumer trust. In 2021, healthcare organizations experienced the highest average cost of a data breach, reaching $9.23 million/data breach, a 29.5% increase from 2020 - according to the Cost of a Data Breach Report 2021. Healthcare has now been the top industry in average total cost for eleven years in a row. Read our healthcare data protection tips.
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