No. Billing information has data that can be used for epidemiology studies, tracking contagious diseases and the like where you want information on population groups and geographic areas. Any individual identification information needs to be scrubbed so as not to invade privacy.
Bob Speth, Office Manager Nancy L Orchard MD Yuba City CA 95991 530.674.4560 ----- Original Message ----- From: "William Stacy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "RBASE-L Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2003 10:42 AM Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: OT: HIPAA debriefing and resources > Bill Downall wrote: > > > 3) For testing, training, and demonstration purposes, there will have to > > be a way to "de-identify" all records in a database. We have a utility > > that goes through all identifiable tables (like "insureds") in a copy of > > the production database and generates new and bogus (or XXX'd out ) > > names, addresses, phones, social security, email addresses, next of > > kins (nexts of kin?), beneficiaries, employers, etc. > > Is this a way of "scrubbing" the drive clean of their info? When would this > ever be used, except when going out of business??? > > bill
