HIPAA Privacy Rule: the Safe Harbor method, whose identifiers must go (45 CFR 164.514(b)(2)(i))
The second route: remove eighteen listed kinds of identifier, and not only the patient's own but those of relatives, employers and household members.
Dated 17 Oct 2026Source checked 17 Oct 2026Basis: primary text
In the source's own words
“The following identifiers of the individual or of relatives, employers, or household members of the individual, are removed: (A) Names;”
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Also read from the same source
- HIPAA Privacy Rule: the de-identification standard (45 CFR 164.514(a))
- HIPAA Privacy Rule: the Expert Determination method (45 CFR 164.514(b)(1))
- 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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