Table 3.
Summary of identifiers that were not removed.
Identifier | Identifier Type | In-house Cases | Consult Cases | Total |
Accession number | HIPAA | 0 | 10 | 10 |
Patient Name | ||||
Misspelled | HIPAA | 5 | 2 | 7 |
Correctly spelled | HIPAA | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Medical record number | HIPAA | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Date | HIPAA | 1 | 0 | 1 |
HIPAA subtotal | 7 | 12 | 19 | |
Institution address, partial | Non-HIPAA | 0 | 17 | 17 |
Age <90 | Non-HIPAA | 16 | 0 | 16 |
Health care organization name | Non-HIPAA | 0 | 6 | 6 |
Doctor name | Non-HIPAA | 1 | 1 | 2 |
Non-HIPAA subtotal | 17 | 24 | 41 | |
Grand total | HIPAA and Non-HIPAA | 24 | 36 | 60 |
There were a total of 3499 unique identifiers in the test reports, of which 1809 were from consult reports and 1690 from in-house reports.