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The HIPAA definitional provision. Information a town holds as an employer, in payroll and budget records, is treated as employment records, which HIPAA's own definition of protected health information excludes. HIPAA is the law most often reached for in a health-privacy argument, and it is generally not the one that governs here: the protection of employee benefit detail rests on Connecticut's freedom of information statute, and the protection of student information rests on FERPA and IDEA.