A data analyst is reviewing a dataset from a hospital that contains patient diagnoses and various demographic fields. To comply with data privacy regulations, the analyst must identify which of the following data elements, when linked to a patient's diagnosis, would classify the record as containing Protected Health Information (PHI).
Protected Health Information (PHI) is any health data that is paired with one or more of the 18 identifiers that can link the information to a specific individual. In this scenario, the patient's full postal code is one of those 18 identifiers defined under HIPAA. The year of birth by itself is not considered a direct identifier. A de-identified study ID is, by definition, stripped of information that could identify a person. An aggregated count of patients does not relate to any single individual and is a method of de-identification.
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