Posted on 1/20/2016
Protected Health Information, or PHI, is the personally identifiable health information that HIPAA regulates and protects. But HIPAA was written nearly 20 years ago for a mostly analog world of paper files and physical x-rays—the iPhone wasn't even a dream.
In today's world of wearables, health apps, genetic sequencing and more, getting a precise definition of PHI can be confusing for developers trying to parse whether they need to be HIPAA compliant or not.
In this post we're going to look at what PHI is, what it isn't, and how you can tell the difference. Hopefully you'll be able to use this as a reference when determi...