How is member health information protected in BHI?
BHI is fully compliant with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and meets all standards for privacy and security. All member claim data is maintained within the secure firewalls of BHI in a de-identified format with technical and administrative safeguards in place to ensure member’s health information cannot be extracted or exported from the secure BHI database without Plan permission. BHI employs the industry’s best practices and security protocols to strictly safeguard access to members’ personal health information (PHI). BHI adheres to HIPAA regulations throughout the collection and processing of company data, as well as the process of calculating and presenting benchmark information. BHI works with leading researchers, business partners, and medical professionals to provide access to the secure database for research purposes only. No personal health information is allowed to be extracted from the BHI environment, without Plan permission and governance ap
