HHS OCR guidance on de-identification (2012): identifiers in free text (HHS OCR, Guidance Regarding Methods for De-identification of PHI, 26 November 2012, section 3.10)
Notes, narratives and comment fields get no exemption: a name or date in prose must go just as it would from a labelled column.
Dated 17 Oct 2026Source checked 17 Oct 2026Basis: primary text
In the source's own words
“an identifier listed in the Safe Harbor standard must be removed regardless of its location in a record if it is recognizable as an identifier.”
Where it was read
Also read from the same source
- HHS OCR guidance on de-identification (2012): who is an expert (HHS OCR, Guidance Regarding Methods for De-identification of PHI, 26 November 2012, section 2.2)
- HHS OCR guidance on de-identification (2012): how an expert works (HHS OCR, Guidance Regarding Methods for De-identification of PHI, 26 November 2012, section 2.6)
- HHS OCR guidance on de-identification (2012): no fixed numerical risk level (HHS OCR, Guidance Regarding Methods for De-identification of PHI, 26 November 2012, section 2.3)
- HHS OCR guidance on de-identification (2012): methods and results documented (HHS OCR, Guidance Regarding Methods for De-identification of PHI, 26 November 2012, section 2.6)
- HHS OCR guidance on de-identification (2012): time-limited determinations (HHS OCR, Guidance Regarding Methods for De-identification of PHI, 26 November 2012, section 2.4)
- HHS OCR guidance on de-identification (2012): what actual knowledge means (HHS OCR, Guidance Regarding Methods for De-identification of PHI, 26 November 2012, section 3.6)
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