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The 18 HIPAA Safe Harbor Identifiers

HIPAA Safe Harbor is the gold standard for de-identifying Protected Health Information (PHI). If you correctly remove or protect the 18 identifiers defined by HHS, your data is considered de-identified and can be used for analytics, research, and AI without HIPAA restrictions.

Dubiel Valdivia
Dubiel Valdivia
December 30, 2025
3 min read
HIPAA Safe Harbor
Dubiel Valdivia
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Dubiel Valdivia

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