De-Identification Profile
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De-Identification Profile, published by IHE IT Infrastructure Technical Committee. This guide is not an authorized publication; it is the continuous build for version 0.0.1-current built by the FHIR (HL7® FHIR® Standard) CI Build. This version is based on the current content of https://github.com/IHE/ITI.DeIdHandbook/ and changes regularly. See the Directory of published versions

HL7 v2 Example

HL7 2.x Messages

The following is an example of what a segment of an HL7 2.x message might look like after de-identification. In this example some of the fields have been removed, and some of the fields have had dummy values substituted.

A08 Before:

MSH\|^\~\\&\|PROACCESS5\|DHIN\|BIOSENSE\|CDC01\|20080808290000\|\|ADT^A08\|1437549872\|P\|2.5\|\|

PID\|123\|12345\|00000123456\|123A\|Public^""^Corbin^""^""^""\|\|19900123\|M\|\|I\|Somestreet^1^Nieuwegein^^84063^""\|US\|+1-801-555-1212\|+1-801-555-1212\|Eng\|S\|Catholic\|MRN1234\|123-45-6789\|UTDL12345\|ID1234\|EthnicGrp\|Dayton,
OH\|""

ZPI\|1\|\|\|DoctorDr.^^""^""^""\|\|\|\|\|\|\|""

PV1\|1\|O\|\|

IN1\|\|Plan123\|PART\|InsureCo\|Address1\|Admin\|+1-801-555-1212\|Group12\|GroupNm\|EmpID\|CoNm\|20080101\|20081231\|Auth\|TypeP\|Spencer^Royce\|Son\|19990101\|Addr\|AOB\|COB\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|""

A08 After:

“U” chars indicate empty content


MSH\|^\~\\&\|PROACCESS5\|DHIN\|BIOSENSE\|CDC01\|20080808290000\|\|ADT^A08\|111122223333\|P\|2.5\|\|

PID\|SID\|PID\|PIDLIST\|ALTPID\|FamilyName^""^GivenName^""^""^""\|\|19900113\|U\|Alias\|U\|""^""^""^^840??^""\|US\|HomePh\|BusPh\|U\|U\|U\|PSEUDO1234\|U\|U\|U\|U\|U\|""

ZPI\|1\|\|\|DoctorDr.^^""^""^""\|\|\|\|\|\|\|""

PV1\|1\|O\|\|

IN1\|\|Plan123\|PART\|InsureCo\|Address1\|Admin\|+1-801-555-1212\|Group12\|GroupNm\|EmpID\|CoNm\|20080101\|20081231\|Auth\|TypeP\|Spencer^Royce\|Son\|19990101\|Addr\|AOB\|COB\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|""

Biosurveillance Specification (CDA)

An example of a de-identification plan for a bio-surveillance is available at ftp:// . This is the table that identifies what algorithm will be applied to all the identified potential input fields. It assumes that the original documents and resulting documents will both be CDA documents.

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