individually identifiable health information, including demographic information, collected from you or created or received by a health care provider, a health plan, your employer (when functioning on behalf of the group health plan), or a health care clearinghouse and that relates to: (i) your past, present, or future physical or mental health or condition; (ii) the provision of health care to you; or (iii) the past, present, or future payment for the provision of health care to you.
Protected Health Information (PHI) is information that is transmitted or maintained in any form or medium (electronic, paper, or oral), and relates to: - The past, present, or future physical or mental health or condition of an individual; - The provision of health care to an individual; or - The past, present, or future payment for the provision of health care to an individual. PHI means individually identifiable health information maintained or transmitted by electronic media or in any other form or medium. Health information which includes any of the following identifiers is considered PHI, and so is subject to the regulations contained in the Privacy Rule: name, address, names of relatives, names of employers, birth date, telephone number, fax number, e-mail addresses, social security number, medical record number, health plan beneficiary number, account number, certificate/license number, any vehicle or device serial number, web URL; Internet Protocol Address; Finger or voice prints, Photographic images; and any other unique identifying number, characteristic, or code.