Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act known as the HIPPA ensures the protection of all patient information (verbal, written, or electronic) under the accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) of US federal law.
It also includes all individually identifiable health information that is transmitted or maintained in any form or medium.
Also, the demographic information that ties to an individual includes the identity of the individual including health records. E.g., names, addresses, geographic codes smaller than a state, dates, elements related to the person, telephone numbers, fax numbers, license numbers, social security numbers, etc.