Personally Identifiable Health Data
From Clinfowiki
Personally identifiable Health Data: refers to any information that can be used, either alone or in combination with other information, to uniquely identify, contact, or locate a single person.
Data are considered “individually identifiable” if they include any of the 18 types of identifiers, listed below:
- Name
- Address (all geographic subdivisions smaller than state, including street address, city, county, ZIP code)
- All elements (except years) of dates related to an individual (including birth date, admission date, discharge date, date of death and exact age if over 89)
- Telephone numbers
- FAX number
- E-mail address
- Social Security number
- Medical record number
- Health plan beneficiary number
- Account number
- Certificate/license number
- Any vehicle or other device serial number
- Device identifiers or serial numbers
- Web URL
- Internet Protocol (IP) address numbers
- Finger or voice prints
- Photographic images
- Any other characteristic that could uniquely identify the individual