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By Ramakrishnan Balasubramanian
Personal health information (PHI), also referred to as protected health information, generally refers to critical information related to the following: medical history, test and laboratory results, insurance information and other data that a healthcare professional collects to identify an individual and determine appropriate care.
As per HIPAA act of 1996 healthcare professionals, insurance company’s etc. shall share very limited information on the patient health to other organisations and all the information that is shared will be in electronic format only.