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The 18 HIPAA Safe Harbor identifiers PHI explained

WEBSummarizing and explaining the 18 rules for HIPAA Safe Harbor (and the so-called 19th rule). What are the rules and their rationale? Alternative to Safe Harbor.

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HIPAA De-identification: Expert Determination & Safe Harbor

WEBIf a data set must contain one of the items excluded by the Safe Harbor provision, it may be still be considered adequately de-identified by the expert determination method if the data does not cause a high risk of identification. If data cannot be considered de-identified directly, it’s often possible to modify data in a way that preserves

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HIPAA Safe Harbor provision Actual Knowledge rule

WEBThe HIPAA Safe Harbor provision says that data can be considered deidentified if 18 kinds of data are removed or reported at low resolution. At the end of the list of 18 items, there is an extra category, sometimes informally called the 19th rule:

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Rare and strange ICD-10 codes

WEBThe verbosity of the name is foreshadowing. Some of the ICD-10 codes are awfully specific, and bizarre. For example, V95.4: Unspecified spacecraft accident injuring occupant. V97.33XA: Sucked into jet engine, initial encounter. V97.33XD: Sucked into jet engine, subsequent encounter. As I understand it, V97.33XD refers to a subsequent …

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Why a little knowledge is a dangerous thing

WEBAlexander Pope famously said. A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring: There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, And drinking largely sobers us again. I’ve been thinking lately about why a little knowledge is often a dangerous thing, and here’s what I’ve come to.. Any complex system has many …

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Perfect fifths, octaves, and number theory

WEBIn music, a perfect fifth is the interval between two notes whose frequencies are in 3:2 ratio. For example, the interval from an A at 440 Hz and an E at 660 Hz is a perfect fifth. Going up by 12 perfect fifths is very nearly the same as going up 7 octaves. That is, (3/2) 12 ≈ 2 7. or in other words,

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How hospitals make decisions

WEBFrom operations research professor Michael Carter on The Science of Better: If I went into a company, a private company, and said "I can save you a million dollars day," the CEO would implement it tomorrow. If I went into a hospital and said "I can save you a million dollars a day," they'd they

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RNG / RBG testing and validation: TestU01, DIEHARDER, etc.

WEBFree consultation. Get started with a free consultation to discuss your testing project. LET’S TALK. Trusted consultants to some of the world’s leading companies. Random number generator test services. We test RNGs using the standard test suites: PractRand, TestU01 (BigCrush), DIEHARD (ER), NIST SP 800-22.

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Sparsely Populated Zip Codes HIPAA Safe Harbor

WEBThe list of sparsely populated zip codes is shorter now according to the 2010 census. 036. 059. 102. 203. 205. 369. 556. 692.

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State Laws go Beyond HIPAA Covered Entities

WEBThe confusion about data privacy, sharing and rights can sometimes be better understood from the perspective of licensing, such as by drawing parallels with how the GPL affects software source code compared to “public domain” and …

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SOLIDARITY: a simple clinical trial of COVID-19 treatments

WEBPosted on 23 March 2020 by John. A story came out in Science yesterday saying the World Health Organization is launching a trial of what it believes are the four most promising treatments for COVID-19 (a.k.a. SARS-CoV-2, novel coronavirus, etc.) The four treatment arms will be. Remdesivir. Chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine. Ritonavir + lopinavir.

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Texas Medical Records Privacy Act TMPRA Extends HIPAA

WEBThe US HIPAA law only protects the privacy of health data held by “covered entities,” which essentially means health care providers and insurance companies. If you give your heart monitoring data or DNA to your doctor, it comes under HIPAA.If you give it to Fitbit or 23andMe, it does not. Government entities are not covered by HIPAA either, …

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Protected Health Information PHI Offshore Data Processing

WEBPosted on 23 October 2018 by John. The US government does not prohibit the transfer of PHI (protected health information) offshore [1], but it does subject offshore data processing to extra reporting [2] and more scrutiny in general. The CMS (Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, part of the Department of Health and Human Services) has said.

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Journal articles and technical reports

WEBPublications. This page lists journal articles and technical reports. You can also find hundreds of articles on applications of math, statistics, and computing on my blog. Cristian Bologa, Vernon Shane Pankratz, Mark L Unruh, Maria Eleni Roumelioti, Vallabh Shah, Saeed Kamran Shaffi, Soraya Arzhan, John Cook, Christos Argyropoulos.

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Illnesses of the U.S. economy

WEB"For the last decade, the U.S. economy has suffered from a combination of hypochondria and iatrogenic illnesses. The hypochondria stems from spurious statistics and deceptive anecdotes and erroneous theories of American decline. It results in a period of fear and anxiety, propagated by the media, measured in public opinion polls, and …

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COVID19 mortality per capita by state

WEBHere’s a silly graph by Richard West with a serious point. States with longer names tend to have higher covid19 mortality. Of course no one believes there’s anything about the length of a state’s name that should impact the health of its residents.

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A Bayesian view of Amazon Resellers beta-binomial model

WEBA Bayesian view of the problem naturally incorporates the amount of data as well as its average. Let θ A be the probability of a customer being satisfied with company A ‘s service. Let θ B be the corresponding probability for company B. Suppose before we see any reviews we think all ratings are equally likely.

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Self-sufficiency is the road to poverty

WEBIn his podcast Roberts on Smith, Ricardo, and Trade, Russ Roberts states that self-sufficiency is the road to poverty. Roberts elaborates on the economic theories of Adam Smith and David Ricardo to explain how specialization and trade create wealth and how radical self-sufficiency leads to poverty. Suppose you decide to grow your own …

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