The person who is the subject of protected health information. Under certain circumstances, such as those in Paragraph 4.5.g. of DODM 6025.18, rights of an individual under this issuance may be exercised by a personal representative. 

A geographic area smaller than a State, such as a county, city, or town.

As defined in OMB Memorandum M-17-12, the loss of control, compromise, unauthorized disclosure, unauthorized acquisition, or any similar occurrence where: (1) a person other than an authorized user accesses or potentially accesses personally identifiable information; or (2) an authorized user accesses or potentially accesses personally identifiable inform...

Except as provided below, a business associate, with respect to a DOD covered entity, is:

A person who, on behalf of such DOD covered entity or of an organized health care arrangement in which the DOD covered entity participates, but other than in the capacity of a member of the workforce of such DOD covered entity or arrangement, creates, receives, maint...

Any penal or correctional facility, jail, reformatory, detention center, work farm, halfway house, or residential community program center operated by, or under contract to, the United States, a State, a territory, a political subdivision of a State or territory, or an Indian tribe, for the confinement or rehabilitation of persons charged with or convicte...

With respect to PHI created or received by a business associate in its capacity as the business associate of a covered entity, the combining of such PHI by the business associate with the PHI received by the business associate in its capacity as a business associate of another covered entity, to permit data analyses that relate to the health care operatio...

A health plan or a health care provider who transmits any health information in electronic form in connection with a standard transaction covered by this issuance. To the extent this issuance prescribes duties to be performed by covered entities, such duties apply only to DOD covered entities.

(1) The DOD Identification Number will replace the SSN as the Geneva Conventions Serial Number for the United States as all DOD identification cards are updated through their natural lifecycle replacement.

The DOD Identification Number is the common name for the Electronic Data Interchange Personal Identifier (EDI-PI).

(a) The E...

A group of federal agencies and non-federal organizations that have by agreement established an interoperable health information exchange to facilitate permissible uses and disclosures of PHI. Participating organizations mutually agree to support a common set of standards and specifications that enable the establishment of a secure, trusted, and interoper...

Records that include health information and are maintained by a component of the DOD or other entity subject to this issuance; are about an individual who is (or seeks or sought to become) a member of the Uniformed Services, employee of the United States Government, employee of a DOD contractor, or person with a comparable relationship to the DOD; and are...

Electronic storage media on which data is or may be recorded electronically, including; hard drives, any removable or transportable digital memory medium, such as magnetic tape or disk, optical disk, or digital memory card, or transmission media used to exchange information already in electronic storage media. Transmission media include the Internet (wide...

Information used to distinguish or trace an individual’s identity, such as name, social security number, date and place of birth, mother’s maiden name, biometric records, home phone numbers, other demographic, personnel, medical, and financial information.  PII includes any information that is linked or linkable to a specified individual,...

A rule, condition, or requirement with respect to the privacy or breach of protected health information.

The provision, coordination, or management of health care and related services by one or more health care providers, including the coordination or management of health care by a health care provider with a third party; consultation between health care providers relating to a patient; or the referral of a patient for health care from one health care p...

A person to whom a business associate delegates a function, activity, or service, other than in the capacity of a member of the workforce of such business associate.