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

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.

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”).

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.

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.

Board or committee in the Department of Health and Human Services that is responsible for overseeing implementation of the administrative simplification provisions of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).

Document or system that characterizes the data content of a system.

Under Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), this is the smallest named unit of information in a transaction.

1. Accuracy, consistency, comprehensiveness, and timeliness (currency) of medical information maintained by a computer system. 2. Principle of security to keep data from modification or corruption either intentionally or accidentally.

Body that provides administrative services to X12 and several other standards-related groups.