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Personal Health Information

What is Personal Health Information?

Individually identifiable health information including medical records, treatment history, and insurance data protected under healthcare privacy regulations.

Compliance and Regulatory

What the standards actually require on personal health information

Requirements naming personal health information across this standard, quoted from the control text.

ISO 27799:202523 controls

Health guidance: real personal health information should never serve as test data, and test data should be realistic (see 8.11).

iso-27799-2025::8.33 · 8.33 Test information →

Questions people ask about personal health information

What is Personal Health Information?
Individually identifiable health information including medical records, treatment history, and insurance data protected under healthcare privacy regulations.
Why is Personal Health Information important for compliance?
Personal Health Information is a key concept in Compliance and Regulatory. Understanding personal health information helps organizations meet regulatory requirements, reduce risk, and demonstrate due diligence during audits. Our compliance platform maps 1,016 frameworks with 316K cross-framework control mappings.
Which compliance frameworks address Personal Health Information?
Personal Health Information appears in the requirement text of ISO 27799:2025. Across these standards we have identified 23 controls that name it directly, each linked to the control text on the compliance platform.
Where can I learn more about Personal Health Information?
Explore our compliance framework pages to see how personal health information applies across different standards and regulations. Our implementation guides provide step-by-step guidance, and the compliance platform offers AI-powered analysis of how this concept maps across 1,016 frameworks.

See how Personal Health Information applies across compliance frameworks

Our platform maps 1,016 frameworks with 316K cross-framework control mappings. Explore how this concept is addressed across standards.

Written and maintained by Gerard Blokdyk, The Art of Service.