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| − | '''De-identified patient data''' is [[Protected Health Information (PHI)|patient data]] that has been removed of important identifiers such as birth date, gender, address, and age.
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| − | == Introduction ==
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| − | There are 19 identifiers that are protected by the [[Health_Insurance_Portability_and_Accountability_Act_(HIPAA)#The_Privacy_Rule|Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Privacy Rule]].
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| − | # name
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| − | # address
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| − | # dates directly related to the individual
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| − | # all ages over 8#
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| − | # telephone number
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| − | # fax number
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| − | # email address
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| − | # Social Security number
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| − | # Medical Record number
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| − | # Health Plan number
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| − | # Account numbers
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| − | # Certificate or License numbers
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| − | # Vehicle Identification numbers
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| − | # Device Identification numbers
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| − | # Universal Resource Locators
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| − | # Internet protocol Address
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| − | # Biometric identifiers
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| − | # full face photographs and images
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| − | # any other unique identifying number, characteristic or code
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| − | HIPAA allows the use of such de-identified data without requiring special authorization, and its use or disclosure without restrictions
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| − | De-identified patient data is often used for research.
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| − | Information is de-identified when it is not possible to 'reasonable ascertain' the identity of a person from that data.
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| − | The definition of Irreversible de-identification of data is context driven. The capacity of re-identify de-identified data may depend critically on particular resources( Intellectual, Information Technology, Access to multiple data sets).(1)
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| − | Efforts are being made to automate the anonymization of health information by developing de-identifications models that can successfully remove personal health information. (2)
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| − | # Australian Government. Office of the Privacy Commissioner.
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| − | # State-of-the-art Anonymization of Medical Records Using an Iterative Machine Learning Framework; György Szarvas, Richárd Farkas, Róbert Busa-Fekete b J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2007 Sep–Oct; 14(5): 574–580.
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| − | == Reference ==
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| − | Friedlin, F. J., McDonald, C. J. A Software Tool for Removing Patient Identifying Information from Clinical Documents. (2008) JAMIA, 15 (5); 601 – 610. PMCID: PMC2528047
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