10 Best Practices for Securing Protected Health Information (PHI): What Is PHI and How To Secure It

This report is a concise guidance brief on protecting Protected Health Information (PHI) that defines PHI, outlines why healthcare data is a prime target, cites recent breach statistics, and provides ten prioritized security controls and operational recommendations (including inventory, RBAC, encryption, MFA, monitoring, BYOD management, third‑party compliance, resilient backups, staff training, and incident response) to reduce risk and improve HIPAA-aligned data protection.