Which term governs regulations for privacy and security of health information?

• A. EHR
• B. HIPAA
• C. Public Health Strategies
• D. Complementary Medicine

Answer: (B)

HIPAA governs how health information is kept private and secure. It creates national standards for protecting identifiable health data and sets rules for how that information can be used, shared, and stored. The Privacy Rule gives patients rights over their PHI and controls who may access it, while the Security Rule lays out the technical, physical, and administrative safeguards for electronic PHI. Other options aren’t regulatory frameworks: an EHR is just the digital record system, not a privacy law; Public Health Strategies focus on improving health outcomes at the population level; Complementary Medicine refers to non-mainstream therapies. So HIPAA is the term that governs privacy and security of health information.