For example:</p> <p> <strong>Treatment</strong>: We may use or disclose your health information to a physician or other healthcare provider providing treatment to you. We may also disclose your PHI for public health purposes, research purposes or for treatment and payment purposes, to a business associate for activities that the business associate undertakes on behalf of the covered entity, for the sale, transfer, merger, or consolidation of the covered entity and for related due diligence, or to an individual when requested<br> under the accounting of disclosures rule or as required by law.</p> <p> <strong>Example: A doctor treating you for an injury asks another doctor about your overall health condition.</strong> </p> <p> <strong>