Under the HITECH Act, unprotected health information that is not secured through the use of technologies or methods that HHS has specified is referred to as
A) medical records.
B) PHI.
C) documentation.
D) unsecured PHI.

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Unsecured PHI refers to protected health information that is not rendered unusable, unreadable, or indecipherable to unauthorized persons through the use of a technology or methodology specified by the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) under the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act.

Under the HITECH Act, Unprotected Health Information That Is Not