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de-identification: In patient privacy, de-identification refers to the removal of identifying information – patient name, medical record number, birthdate, social security number – from medical records, to protect patient privacy. This is important for HIPAA and patient privacy considerations.

re-anonymization: The ability to reverse-engineer anonymized information. E.g. The risk-exposure of being able to identify a person with 90% certainty, using only access to publicly available databases and the person’s date-of-birth and postal code.

Read more about locational privacy at http://www.ehealthinformation.ca.

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