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'Anonymized' Medical Data Protects Privacy and Improves Care
California HealthCare Foundation [Opinion] July 31, 2009
Excerpt: Some non-treatment uses of health data -- including quality, research and public health -- can be done with data where sufficient patient identifiers have been removed to make it anonymous to the recipient. For example, such 'anonymized' data can be used to assess the efficacy of health care treatments and strengthen our capacity to provide patients with better, more efficient health care. But our health privacy laws today do not promote the use of anonymized data. Instead, our laws, in many cases, either permit or require the use of fully identifiable data (including patient names, addresses, phone numbers, etc.) for these functions, providing little incentive to remove identifiers from data before its use.
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