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Vol. I · No. 251
Mon · 8 Jun
A Daily Lexicon of Trustworthy Data
The Lexicon

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protected health information

/prəˈtɛktɪd hɛlθ ˌɪnfərˈmeɪʃən/ - n.

1 [colloq.] Data protected by everyone who assumed someone else was protecting it.Keep. Punchy.This is the problem.

Working definition

2. Individually identifiable health data held or transmitted by a covered entity, subject to statutory safeguards.

Evidence
See also
  • access controlsA least-privilege model in which forty-one people have privilege, because requesting removal is harder than requesting access.
  • data classificationA four-tier scheme under which everything is filed as 'Internal' to avoid the conversation.
  • least privilegeA principle interpreted as 'the least we can grant without anyone filing a ticket,' which trends upward.
  • personally identifiable informationThe fields everyone agreed were sensitive, in the one table nobody scanned.