What is Protected Health Information (PHI) ?

This document describes what constitutes Protected Health Information (PHI) and electronic PHI (ePHI), provides examples of PHI in paper, verbal, and digital forms, explains the distinction between PHI and ePHI and associated HIPAA safeguards, and emphasizes the need for administrative, physical, and technical protections to ensure compliance; it concludes with a note about a service for validating HIPAA security controls.