Tempus's licence agreements describe the records a licensee sees in Lens as health information without the 18 identifiers of the HIPAA Safe Harbor method; its 10-K says it de-identifies after abstraction as a covered entity or business associate. Its public policy page could not be read when checked (the site refused automated reading).
Safe Harbor's 18 identifiers removed in the data licensees view
Dated 12 Feb 2024Source checked 27 Oct 2026Basis: stated
In the source's own words
“The Software provides a view of health information that does not include the 18 identifiers listed in the Safe Harbor method for de-identification set forth in 45 C.F.R. § 164.514(b)(2)(i).”
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Also read from the same source
- Subscription to Tempus Lens, the software through which a licensee searches and selects Tempus's de-identified clinical and molecular records before licensing them (Pathos AI, four annual invoices)
- The big imaging brokers deliver under Safe Harbor; Expert Determination is a platform badge or an option, not the default
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