Clinical data may contain Protected Health Information (PHI) that requires a considerable number of authorizations and security measures for analysis. Impermissible use or disclosure of PHI is subjected to public notification (>500 subjects) and possible penalties. HIPAA policies allow limited reuse of unadulterated PHI, but provides greater flexibility for analysis of “limited datasets” or “fully anonymized datasets. Generating these datasets requires high levels of expertise.
Our team can help with PHI anonymization or transformation in limited datasets by utilizing a pipeline of state-of-the-art public and commercial software and guidelines set forth by HHS (http://www.hhs.gov/ocr/privacy/hipaa/understanding/coveredentities/De-id...):
- Safe Harbor: deletion of the 18 identifiers
- Expert Method: methods to obfuscate the dates by generating per patient random offsets
- Expert Method: narratives de-identification algorithms (de-idata, Harvard Scrubber)
De-identification/Anonymization services are charged at $76.00/hour.
For more information regarding this service or put in a request for a new project, please contact Colleen Kenost at ckenost@medadmin.arizona.edu. Estimates of work will be provided to determine if you would like to move forward with the fulfillment of your request.