The Minimum Necessary Standard (Continued)

The next few slides of this course will explain how the Minimum Necessary Standard applies to uses, disclosures and requests for PHI within your organization. Before you proceed to the next slide, however, please take a few minutes to re-acquaint yourself with a few important HIPAA Privacy Concepts (Please visit the Glossary of Terms in the Document Library by clicking here):

PHI (Protected Health Information); IIHI (Individually Identifiable Health Information); Covered Entity; Treatment; Payment; Health Care Operations

In addition, please familiarize yourself with the following terms:
Disclosure: The release or divulgence of information by an entity to persons or organizations outside of that entity.
Use: The sharing, employment, application, utilization, examination or analysis of PHI within an organization that maintains such information.

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