# Identifying personal health information (PHI) in a transcription
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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](transcribe-medical.md). For information about identifying PHI in an audio file, see [Identifying PHI in an audio file](phi-id-batch.md). For information about identifying PHI in a stream, see [Identifying PHI in a real-time stream](phi-id-stream.md).

**Topics**
+ [Identifying PHI in an audio file](phi-id-batch.md)
+ [Identifying PHI in a real-time stream](phi-id-stream.md)