-The [Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996](https://www.cdc.gov/phlp/php/resources/health-insurance-portability-and-accountability-act-of-1996-hipaa.html) (HIPAA) and healthcare standards such as Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) and [Health Information Trust Alliance](https://hitrustalliance.net/hitrust-csf/) (HITRUST) protect the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of patients' protected health information (PHI). These regulations and standards ensure that healthcare organizations such as doctors' offices, hospitals, and health insurers ("covered entities") create, receive, maintain, transmit, or access PHI appropriately. In addition, their requirements extend to business associates who provide services that involve PHI for the covered entities. Microsoft is an example of a business associate that provides information technology services like Azure Local to help healthcare companies store and process PHI more efficiently and securely. The following sections provide information on how Azure Local capabilities help organizations meet these requirements.
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