The HIPAA Privacy Rule established the category of protected health information (PHI), which allows covering entities, such as healthcare clearinghouses, health plans, and healthcare providers that transmit health information, to use or disclose PHI to others only in some certain conditions. EXPLAIN.

The HIPAA Privacy Rule established the category of protected health information (PHI), which allows covering entities, such as healthcare clearinghouses, health plans, and healthcare providers that transmit health information, to use or disclose PHI to others only in some certain conditions.