De-identified data

Health data
De-identified data is

{{Quote|the elimination of all identifiers as enumerated under HIPAA under the safe-harbor method (i.e., a patient's name, medical record number, social security number, and other data fields that directly link a patient to their data). There is potentially another approach that involves having a statistician determine that the ability (likelihood) of being able to combine data with other public sources of information and successfully identify an individual is extremely small.