From the article: "On November 26, 2012, the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of
Civil Rights (“OCR”) published guidance on the
two methods for de-identifying protected health information (“PHI”) in
accordance with the HIPAA Privacy Rule. The guidance, which was required by the
Health Information Technology for Clinical and Economic Health (“HITECH”) Act,
has been developed over several years by OCR in collaboration with healthcare
entities and other industry experts and builds upon the discussions from a
workshop on de-identification that took place in March 2010.
The guidance covers three main topics: (1) key terms in the HIPAA Privacy
Rule, (2) the statistical expert method for de-identifying PHI, and (3) the
safe harbor method for de-identifying PHI." Read more
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