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. 2006 Mar 6;6:12. doi: 10.1186/1472-6947-6-12

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.