Executive Briefings | July 3, 2012
Can You Be Re-Identified?
July 3, 2012
Do you know that your de-identified personal health data, once it has been de-identified, is no longer subject to HIPAA regulations and can be used for any purpose? Or, that there are algorithms that allow unrelated data sets (medical records, financial records, etc.) to be "linked together" – identifying the data in terms of a specific individual (namely you)? Or, that re-identifying individual consumer health information is technically legal?
I didn't know any of this until I read a recent paper published in the Journal . . .