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Privacy and security officers are accountable for PHI in each system it touches, and for however it gets shared.
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) is a federal law in the United States that regulates the control and access of sensitive healthcare information. Covered entities under HIPAA include healthcare providers, health plans, and other entities that handle protected health information (PHI).
Violations of HIPAA can result in civil and criminal penalties, including fines and imprisonment. It’s therefore essential that covered entities understand their obligations under HIPAA and have compliance policies and procedures in place to identify and protect PHI in business-critical systems such as email, collaboration, and AI.
Recognized for its Completeness of Vision and Ability to Execute in the 2026 Digital Communications Governance and Archiving report.
If your organization handles PHI, the duty to safeguard it applies to any system it touches. Mitigate HIPAA violation risks by governing it across each one.
PHI moves faster than reactive containment. By the time you notice PHI went somewhere it shouldn't, stopping it is no longer an option.
People share PHI to get their jobs done. Most disclosures come from normal workflows, not misconduct, so policies alone won't catch them.
Each time an incident is identified, someone has to review it, assess it, and document it. That work doesn't get cheaper with volume. It gets more costly.
The HIPAA Security Rule calls for audit controls, but reconstructing who accessed PHI, and when, is difficult when it lives across multiple systems.
When PHI is treated differently across teams and systems, no one can say with confidence how the business handles it as a whole.
Breaches don't only cost the organization. Patients who lose trust withhold information from their care teams, which affects outcomes.
Mimecast uses AI-powered policies to surface unauthorized sharing of protected health information (PHI) and personally identifiable information (PII) across platforms with industry-leading accuracy.
After rolling out Slack, a major telecommunications company found PII and payment card data in employee messages. Mimecast helped them identify and remediate over 20,000 credit card shares in a single year.
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