acronyms
Key federal law governing the privacy and confidentiality of patient information
What is Privacy Rule
a person or organization other than a member of a CE's workforce that performs functions or activities on behalf of or affecting a CE that involve the use or disclosure of individually identifiable health information
What is Business associate
Consisting of employees, volunteers, student interns and trainees
what is workforce
information from which personal characteristics about the individual or the individuals relatives, employers or household members have been removed and that as a result neither identifies nor provides a reasonable basis to believe it could identify and individual
what is Deidentified information