BAA = business associate agreement. Contract between an organization that handles personal health information (e.g. a research lab in a university ) and a busin

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-business-associate-agreement-BAA http://searchhealthit.techtarget.com/definition/HIPAA-busine...