HIPAA and BAA — Health Data Requirements
Understanding Protected Health Information, Business Associate Agreements, technical safeguards, and audit requirements
If PCI DSS is about protecting credit card numbers, HIPAA is about protecting something far more personal: your health information. And unlike credit card numbers, which can be reissued, your medical history is permanent. You can't get a new diagnosis.
That permanence is why HIPAA penalties are severe and why health-tech companies take this seriously. If you're building anything that touches healthcare data in the United States, this lesson is not optional.
What HIPAA Actually Covers
HIPAA (the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) was passed in 1996, but the parts developers care about are the Privacy Rule and the Security Rule, both updated significantly over the years.
The Privacy Rule governs who can access Protected Health Information and under what
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