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| − | '''De-identified patient data:'''
| + | #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.
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| − | This depends on the context.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 for automatize the anonymization of health information by developing de-identifications models that can successfully remove personal health information.
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| − | 1. Australian Government. Office of the Privacy Commissioner.
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