Month: July 2022

Refers to physical, technological, or administrative safeguards or tools used to protect identifiable health data from unwarranted access or disclosure.

An individual’s right to control the acquisition, uses, or disclosures of his or her identifiable health data. See HIPAA.

The obligation to protect the confidentiality of patient health information is imposed by a myriad of state lawsand the federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) as amended under the Health...

Information, whether oral or recorded in any form or medium, that (1) is created or received by a healthcare provider, health plan, public health authority, employer, life insurer, school or university, or healthcare...

The intersection of clinical informatics and public health informatics. It is one of several fields which compose the interdisciplinary field known as biomedical informatics. Health informatics is “the interdisciplinary study of...