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title: Best practices for sharing personal health information (PHI)
description: This ebook explains how to identify PHI using the 18 indicators, and how healthcare organizations can exchange PHI securely and avoid HIPAA violations.
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##  EBOOK 

# Best Practices for Sharing Protected Health Information (PHI)

In this ebook: you can learn about the 18 PHI indicators, the legal requirements and penalties surrounding it, and how your healthcare organization can exchange PHI securely.

*PHI refers to any sort of protected health information regarding your patients.*

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## Key topics covered in this ebook:

### What is considered PHI?

![Q1](https://hello.celohealth.com/hubfs/Q1.png "Q1")

Be able to identify PHI using the 18 indicators, and see examples of PHI that is commonly exchanged between care teams.

### Why should you protect PHI?

![Q2](https://hello.celohealth.com/hubfs/Q2.png "Q2")

Discover why it's crucial to protect patient privacy, and the hefty consequences of texting in violation of HIPAA.

#### How to exchange PHI securely

![Q3-1](https://hello.celohealth.com/hubfs/Q3-1.png "Q3-1")

Find out how to assess your own organization, and resolve any threats associated with sharing PHI.

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