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De-identification is a process or a way in which an organization or any institution exposes personal information from the data they have already accessed and uses archive as well as sharing with the organization. De-identification is very important in any organization like health research, which results in societal advantages which are made possible by sharing of the patient’s information under the schedule which is gotten by the health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Privacy Rule. The U.S is the primary regulatory policy of this regulation. (Boban, 2016).
Data that entails the protected health information and data that have been de-identified; the HIPAA privacy rules recognize a third category of data. In this circumstance, where there is a privacy Rule, a restricted dataset is a kind of data that has been primarily de-identified, but on the other hand, it contains city, state, zip code, and age. That kind of data is counted to be protected health information but is morally shared for public health and also research.
Medical research de-identification involves a key amount of unstructured text. There has been a plan for developing and evaluating designed tools. The two primary techniques explored have been a rule-based system and a statistical system. The very useful medical information research may be mistaken for special information and get eliminated. The impact of not following the policy of regulation in a health facility is that it brings about disrespect (Regulation, 2016). You find that there is no privacy between the person attending you as well as the system. This can turn down the confidence and trust of the patients due to the fact that his/her information is exposed. It may be diagnoses or even the follow-up lab report. Also, there is also insecurity; you find that when this information concerning the patients is exposed, may it be on the computer. They can be easily be changed or even deleted, and at the end of the day, there will be wrong feedback or results in reason being the actual information was altered.
Another impact will make the patient feel demeaned and exposed. For instance, if the information which was leaked was his/her diagnosis and he/she didn’t want the information to be known by the other colleagues, you find that it will be very tough for him/her to cope with society (Magdziarczyk, 2019). This is because there is stigmatization and also depression because his/her information was disclosed. Again it is also very dangerous because wrong information can be given to the patient. For instance, the patient was under particular monitoring, and his/her information basing certain diagnoses is accessed by different people who are unskilled. The chances are that he/she can be directed to the wrong medication or, rather, to the wrong decision.
Therefore, in clinics and hospitals or other institutions where there a lot of interaction with different people, it is always important to keep the client, patient, or customer information. This can bring out mostly negative outcome comes to the person. Professionals attending the patients need to consider privacy, respect, and by doing that, they will be ethical in their work. Unless the patient decides to expose his/her information to a society or even the media, it is well and good but not by the third party.
In the U.S, there is law and regulations which recognizes the need and utility of de-identification. It entails; the education department has held the restrictions which are put by the family as well as the Educational Record Privacy Act (FERPA), .which states that do not apply tode-identification of the student records. This educational institution is allowed to reveal without even the consent, educational records, or information from education records that have been de-identified through the removal of all personality identified information. Also, the Sevier illnesses like the case of Foodborne illness, which are taken care of the certain centers responsible for prevention are allowed to timely expose to the public. This kind of laws and regulations tend to treat de-identification as a way to control and can be put into practice, in removing personal information, as well as allowing the data which can be used in a way to disclose the identities of data subjects.
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Boban, M. (2016). Digital single market and EU data protection reform with regard to the processing of personal data as the challenge of the modern world. Economic and social development: book of proceedings, 191.
Regulation P. (2016). Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council. REGULATION (EU), 679, 2016.
Magdziarczyk, M. (2019). Right to Be Forgotten in Light of Regulation (Eu) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the Protection of Natural Persons with Regard to the Processing of Personal Data and on the Free Movement of Such Data, and Repealing Directive 95/46/Ec. In 6th INTERNATIONAL MULTIDISCIPLINARY SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCE ON SOCIAL SCIENCES AND ART SGEM 2019 (pp. 177-184).