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PE firms are rolling up physician practices at record pace. Most have no idea what PHI is hiding in those legacy systems. Here is what to look for—and where.

Most CISOs can't answer what's in their LLM training pipeline. 22% of pasted data is confidential. Scan training datasets for PII before your AI model memorizes customer records.

Deal fell apart over 2.3M customer records in a folder nobody knew existed. SOC 2 passed. Security questionnaire clean. Data discovery scan found $2M in remediation costs. Scan before you sign.

Six-figure DSPM platforms solve problems most organizations don't have yet. If you can't answer 'where is our PII?'—start with discovery, not a platform. Two days vs. three months.

Most breached PHI was in places nobody inventoried—forgotten file servers, legacy backups, shadow IT. HIPAA-covered entities need to scan beyond clinical systems before OCR asks where patient data actually lived.

PHI and PII are not the same. PHI is health data protected by HIPAA. PII is any data that identifies a person. Here's what each covers, which laws apply, and how to stay compliant.