HIPAA Privacy Rule: the de-identification standard (45 CFR 164.514(a))
Health data that meets this standard is no longer individually identifiable, so it is no longer protected health information and the Privacy Rule's limits on use and sale stop applying to it.
Dated 17 Oct 2026Source checked 17 Oct 2026Basis: primary text
In the source's own words
“Health information that does not identify an individual and with respect to which there is no reasonable basis to believe that the information can be used to identify an individual is not individually identifiable health information.”
Where it was read
Also read from the same source
- HIPAA Privacy Rule: the Expert Determination method (45 CFR 164.514(b)(1))
- HIPAA Privacy Rule: the Safe Harbor method, whose identifiers must go (45 CFR 164.514(b)(2)(i))
- HIPAA Safe Harbor: geography and the three-digit ZIP rule (45 CFR 164.514(b)(2)(i)(B))
- HIPAA Safe Harbor: dates and ages over 89 (45 CFR 164.514(b)(2)(i)(C))
- HIPAA Safe Harbor: any other unique number, characteristic or code (45 CFR 164.514(b)(2)(i)(R))
- HIPAA Safe Harbor: the no actual knowledge condition (45 CFR 164.514(b)(2)(ii))
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