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Data privacy management systems and methods

  • US 20050065824A1
  • Filed: 07/15/2004
  • Published: 03/24/2005
  • Est. Priority Date: 07/15/2003
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. A system for pre-processing a healthcare data records file to ensure compliance with privacy regulations governing personally identifiable information in the data fields of the data records, the system comprising:

  • a secure data processing environment for receiving and processing the data records file;

    an application for auditing data fields in the data records to determine a need for encoding information in select data fields in the received data records to mask individual identity;

    an encoding tool set disposed in the secure environment to generate encoding parameters for the selected data fields according to the determined need, wherein the encoding tool set comprises standard reference tables relating the individually identifiable information in the select data fields to select encoding parameters; and

    an application for replacing the information in the selected data fields in the data records with the corresponding select encoding parameters.

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