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Identifying personal health information (PHI) in a transcription

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Identifying personal health information (PHI) in a transcription - Amazon Transcribe

Use Personal Health Information Identification to label personal health information (PHI) in your transcription results. By reviewing labels, you can find PHI that could be used to identify a patient.

You can identify PHI using either a real-time stream or batch transcription job.

You can use your own post-processing to redact the PHI identified in the transcription output.

Use Personal Health Information Identification to identify the following types of PHI:

  • Personal PHI:

    • Names – Full name or last name and initial

    • Gender

    • Age

    • Phone numbers

    • Dates (not including the year) that directly relate to the patient

    • Email addresses

  • Geographic PHI:

    • Physical address

    • Zip code

    • Name of medical center or practice

  • Account PHI:

    • Fax numbers

    • Social security numbers (SSNs)

    • Health insurance beneficiary numbers

    • Account numbers

    • Certificate or license numbers

  • Vehicle PHI:

    • Vehicle identification number (VIN)

    • License plate number

  • Other PHI:

    • Web Uniform Resource Location (URL)

    • Internet Protocol (IP) address numbers

Amazon Transcribe Medical is a Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) eligible service. For more information, see Amazon Transcribe Medical. For information about identifying PHI in an audio file, see Identifying PHI in an audio file. For information about identifying PHI in a stream, see Identifying PHI in a real-time stream.

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