本技术报告的范围将集中于这些要求，以应对使用技术安全服务维护个人可识别健康信息隐私和安全的挑战。这些流程旨在保护信息，并控制和监控个人对信息的访问。通过应用旨在涵盖信息管理四个主要领域的政策和程序，可以以合理且可扩展的方式保护医疗保健信息。这些领域是行政程序、实物保障、技术安全服务和技术安全机制。

The scope of this Technical Report is to focus on those requirements for meeting the challenge of maintaining privacy and security of Individually Identifiable Health Information using Technical Security Services. These processes are put in place to protect information and to control and monitor individual access to information. Securing health care information in a reasonable and scaleable manner can be achieved by applying policies and procedures designed to cover four major areas of information management. These areas are Administrative Procedures, Physical Safeguards, Technical Security Services and Technical Security Mechanisms.