Healthcare IT Today December 28, 2021
Everyone in healthcare likely knows the term PHI (Protected Health Information). Understanding what is considered PHI has been extremely important to ensure compliance with HIPAA regulations. Certainly many outside of healthcare have confused how HIPAA applies and applied it to a lot of non-PHI, but those in healthcare have gotten to know what is considered PHI and what isn’t.
The Information Blocking regulation has introduced a new term called EHI (Electronic Health Information). the term aligns with HIPAA’s PHI, but they are not synonymous. The new term EHI is important to understand since ONC’s information blocking regulations apply to interferences with the access, exchange, or use of EHI. In other words, if you want to comply with the information blocking...
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