The security and privacy requirements of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) often lead providers to an overly-restrictive view with regard to the handling of protected health information (PHI). With the advent of electronic protected health information (ePHI), this overly-restrictive view has spilled into the cyberdomain, particularly with regard to on-premise vs. “cloud” storage and use of ePHI. Read more here: Patient, Provider and Payer: Why it's in everybody's interest to move patient health information out of the premise and into the cloud