Personally Identifiable Health Data

Personally identifiable Health Data: refers to any information that can be used, either alone or in combination with other information, to uniquely identify, contact, or locate a single person.

Data are considered “individually identifiable” if they include any of the 18 types of identifiers, listed below:

• Name
• Address (all geographic subdivisions smaller than state, including street address, city, county, ZIP code)
• All elements (except years) of dates related to an individual (including birth date, admission date, discharge date, date of death and exact age if over 89)
• Telephone numbers
• FAX number
• E-mail address
• Social Security number
• Medical record number
• Health plan beneficiary number
• Account number
• Certificate/license number
• Any vehicle or other device serial number
• Device identifiers or serial numbers
• Web URL
• Internet Protocol (IP) address numbers
• Finger or voice prints
• Photographic images
• Any other characteristic that could uniquely identify the individual

Source: http://hipaa.yale.edu/guidance/index.html#phi