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The United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) plans to hire a contractor to test whether de-identified data--records stripped of information tying it to specific individuals--can truly protect the privacy of individuals, reports Washington Technology. De-identification and re-identification of healthcare records has become an important issue as the U.S. moves to create a national electronic health data network. Data de-identification is a critical component to maintaining privacy under HIPAA rules. According to the HHS notice, "The contractor shall take one or more HIPAA Privacy Rule de-identified data sets and, using methods and technologies that exclude 'brute force' matching, demonstrate the ability or inability to re-identify the data."
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