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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Biomed Inform. 2017 Jun 11;75 Suppl:S4–S18. doi: 10.1016/j.jbi.2017.06.011

Table 4.

PHI categories and subcategories for 2016 de-identification annotation. Similar tables appeared in previous publications (Stubbs and Uzuner 2015; Stubbs, Kotfila, and Uzuner 2015)

Category Subcategory
NAME PATIENT, DOCTOR, USERNAME
AGE n/a
DATE n/a
LOCATION STREET, ZIP, CITY, STATE, COUNTRY, HOSPITAL, ORGANIZATION, LOCATION-OTHER
CONTACT EMAIL, FAX, PHONE, URL
ID SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER, MEDICAL RECORD NUMBER, HEALTH PLAN NUMBER, ACCOUNT NUMBER, LICENSE NUMBER, VEHICLE ID, DEVICE ID, BIOMETRIC ID, ID NUMBER
PROFESSION n/a
OTHER n/a