De-identified Information and Courses from MediaLab, Inc.
These are the MediaLab courses that cover De-identified and links to relevant pages within the course.
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| De-Identified Health Information Health information is considered de-identified, if it cannot be used to identify an individual. Other terms for de-identified health information are: Anonymous, Aggregated, and Scrubbed.The Privacy Regulation details the specific individual information which needs to be removed from PHI for it to qualify as de-identified.When PHI is de-identified, it is no longer considered protected.De-identified health information should be used whenever individual patient identification is unnecessary. | View Page |
| Case Study: De-identified Health Information. You work in a laboratory microbiology department which provides a local nursing home with information about the effectiveness of various antibiotics it uses to treat infections. You print the requested information, including complete patient identification, bacterial organisms identified, and their sensitivity to various antibiotics. What information should you provide to the nursing home? | View Page |