Protected health information
- Protected health information
Protected health information (PHI), under the US Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), is any information about health status, provision of health care, or payment for health care that can be linked to an individual. This is interpreted rather broadly and includes any part of a patient’s medical record or payment history.
List of 18 Identifiers according to HIPAA 1996:
# Names;
# All geographical subdivisions smaller than a State, including street address, city, county, precinct, zip code, and their equivalent geocodes, except for the initial three digits of a zip code, if according to the current publicly available data from the Bureau of the Census: (1) The geographic unit formed by combining all zip codes with the same three initial digits contains more than 20,000 people; and (2) The initial three digits of a zip code for all such geographic units containing 20,000 or fewer people is changed to 000.
# dates (except year) for dates directly related to an individual, including birth date, admission date, discharge date, date of death; and all ages over 89 and all elements of dates (including year) indicative of such age, except that such ages and elements may be aggregated into a single category of age 90 or older;
# Phone numbers;
# Fax numbers;
# Electronic mail addresses;
# Social Security numbers;
# Medical record numbers;
# Health plan beneficiary numbers;
# Account numbers;
# Certificate/license numbers;
# Vehicle identifiers and serial numbers, including license plate numbers;
# Device identifiers and serial numbers;
# Web Universal Resource Locators (URLs);
# Internet Protocol (IP) address numbers;
# Biometric identifiers, including finger and voice prints;
# Full face photographic images and any comparable images; and
# Any other unique identifying number, characteristic, or code (note this does not mean the unique code assigned by the investigator to code the data)
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