Dark Stores

Retail stores, such as grocery stores, clothing stores, and home good stores, that have been boarded up and closed to customers, turning the locations into fulfillment centers, providing for local delivery and pickup of goods.

Data

In the health care setting, this is a collection of letters, numbers, dates, symbols, graphic images, and words about individuals and their medical conditions.

Data aggregation

Under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), combining protected health information by a business associate together with the protected health information received by the business associate in its capacity as a business associate of another covered entity.

Data codes

Digital coding system for data in a computer, such as American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII, pronounced “asskey”) and Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code (EBCDIC, pronounced “IB-sa-dik”).

Data condition

1. Explanation of the situation when specific information is required. 2. Under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), the data elements and code sets that encompass a transaction but are not related to the format.

Data content

Under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), these are all the data elements and code sets inherent to a transaction, and not related to the format of the transaction.