De-indentify health information

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August 28, 2009 at 3:29 pm #51155

Xiaochun Tong
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Has anyone done any work in de-indentifying Protected Health Information for the purpose of reporting data to public health agencies with minimal privacy risk?

We appreciate any advice or insights on this topic. Thanks in advance.
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- August 28, 2009 at 4:17 pm #68970
  
  Jim Kosloskey
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  I am not a lawyer, but I seem to recall that if you have a ‘Trusted Partner’ agreement (I think that is what it is called) with the partner, sending Protected information programmatically does not put you in violation.
  
  I believe Public Health agencies are all government agencies and I also think all Government Agencies have a blanket ‘Trusted Partner’ status.
  
  email: jim.kosloskey@jim-kosloskey.com 29+ years Cloverleaf, 59 years IT - old fart.
- September 18, 2009 at 4:51 pm #68971
  
  Troy Morton
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  You do (by law) have to encrypt the data if it is sent outside your internal network (through the firewall).
- September 18, 2009 at 9:40 pm #68972
  
  David Barr
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  ~~Troy Morton wrote:~~
  
  Using SFTP, HTTPS, VPN, Password protected ZIP file(s) are all sufficient to meet the requirements.
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