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10 January 2013
By: Rebecca Merrill Guidance from the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) provides clarity on the available methods of de-identification of protected health information (PHI) as well as the federal government’s scrutiny of such procedures. The Privacy Rule of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) established two methods...