Spot PHI before you share it
Identify when health, payment, or demographic details become PHI under HIPAA.
The move: look for the link between a person and care. HIPAA's Privacy Rule protects individually identifiable health information. In practice, that means two ingredients matter: a way to identify the person and a connection to health, care, or payment. The identifier may be direct, like a name or medical record number, or contextual, like a rare appointment date on a small team. This matters because many accidental disclosures do not look like full records. They look like screenshots, calendar details, claims notes, chat messages, and spreadsheet columns. The safe habit is to scan for three signals before sharing: who…
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