{"id":50035251,"user":"Onavo","time":1791654194,"time_ago":"5 hours ago","type":"comment","content":"

Is this good enough for HIPAA?","comments":[{"id":50035946,"user":"fwip","time":1791658461,"time_ago":"4 hours ago","type":"comment","content":"

No.","comments":[{"id":50036626,"user":"Onavo","time":1791662808,"time_ago":"3 hours ago","type":"comment","content":"

It's the technique used by a lot of AI healthtech","comments":[{"id":50037895,"user":"fwip","time":1791672004,"time_ago":"5 minutes ago","type":"comment","content":"

If they're relying primarily on this type of tool to scrub PHI, I can tell you already they are not in compliance.","comments":[],"comments_count":0,"level":2,"url":"item?id=50037895"},{"id":50037035,"user":"estearum","time":1791665420,"time_ago":"2 hours ago","type":"comment","content":"

What is? This is nowhere close to what HIPAA requires.","comments":[{"id":50037381,"user":"Onavo","time":1791667858,"time_ago":"an hour ago","type":"comment","content":"

A lot of clinical decision support AI tools essentially scrub the PHI data on the frontend.","comments":[{"id":50037425,"user":"estearum","time":1791668174,"time_ago":"an hour ago","type":"comment","content":"

PHI is a different set of data points from PII amigo.","comments":[{"id":50037488,"user":"Onavo","time":1791668617,"time_ago":"an hour ago","type":"comment","content":"

Same technique is good enough.","comments":[{"id":50037912,"user":"estearum","time":1791672219,"time_ago":"2 minutes ago","type":"comment","content":"

Which is why I was asking what you meant by "this technique."

If your question is: "Is client-side de-identification sufficient for HIPAA," then sure, assuming you are de-identifying the data elements required by HIPAA to be de-identified. You'd have to be a real big idiot to rely on something like this though.

If your question is: "Does this library, as described in the blog post, de-identify data sufficiently for HIPAA?" then no, it doesn't appear that it does.","comments":[],"comments_count":0,"level":6,"url":"item?id=50037912"}],"comments_count":1,"level":5,"url":"item?id=50037488"}],"comments_count":2,"level":4,"url":"item?id=50037425"}],"comments_count":3,"level":3,"url":"item?id=50037381"}],"comments_count":4,"level":2,"url":"item?id=50037035"}],"comments_count":6,"level":1,"url":"item?id=50036626"}],"comments_count":7,"level":0,"url":"item?id=50035946"}],"comments_count":8,"url":"item?id=50035251"}

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