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De-identified patient data:
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#REDIRECT [[Identifiable Health Data]]
Removal of important identifiers (Birth date, gender, address, age, etc) from the patient data before it is used for research or other purposes.
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Information is de-identified when it is not possible to 'reasonable ascertain' the identity of a person from that data. This depends on the context.
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The definition of Irreversible de-identification of data is context driven. The capacity of reidentify deindetified data may depend critically on particular resources ( Intellectual, Information Technology, Access to multiple data sets)
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1. Australian Government. Office of the Privacy Commissioner.
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