HIPAA Security Reminder of the Week

HIPAA Alphabet Soup

The Acts that made all this privacy and security possible:

• HIPAA: Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
• HITECH Act: Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act
• ARRA Act: American Recovery and Reinvestment Act

Key acronyms:

• BA: Business Associate
• CE: Covered Entity
• EHR: Electronic Health Record, also sometimes referred to as EMR, electronic medical record
• EPHI: Electronic Protected Health Information
• IIHI: Individually Identifiable Health Information
• PHI: Protected Health Information
• PII: Patient Identifiable Information
• TPO: Treatment, Payment, and (healthcare) Operations