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You're a patient at a local health clinic and are asked to fill out a health care form requiring personal information about your health. How does HIPAA protect this information? ​

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The Privacy Rule protects all "individually identifiable health information" held or transmitted by a covered entity or its business associate, in any form or media, whether electronic, paper, or oral. The Privacy Rule calls this information "protected health information (PHI)."