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For the layman, is a BAA this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broad_Agency_Announcement

(The other terms were a bit easier to google)

Here are the other terms:

HIPAA: the acronym for the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act that was passed by Congress in 1996

PHI: Protected health information

BAA = business associate agreement. Contract between an organization that handles personal health information (e.g. a research lab in a university ) and a business that does work with that data (e.g. Google Genomics).

Edit: link to relevant definition http://searchhealthit.techtarget.com/definition/HIPAA-busine...

No, it's a Business Associate Agreement, part of HIPAA. (See a sample here: http://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-professionals/covered-entities/...)

Basically an agreement between organizations that there is an understanding that PHI (protected health information) is at stake and that both parties are aware of their obligations to protect it.

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