Classes Class Identity
Protection
Services Privacy | +--Identity
Protection
Services
The Identity Protection Service will facilitate the separate
storage of personal information that uniquely identifies
individuals (e.g. name, address, health card number, etc.) from
health information relating to their care and treatment, diagnosis,
etc. This service would provide authorised users with seamless
access to PHI through the use of a linking table or service
connecting an individual’s public identifier (PID) with his/her
personal health information (PHI) without the two data sets
residing in the same physical location Patients/clients will
typically be identified by a public identifier such as a Health
Card number that correlates to one ECID in each identity domain
containing Personal Health Information (PHI) about the
patient/client. An EHR Client ID is protected information that is
only known to systems “above the HIAL”. Such pseudonymized data
allows for longitudinal studies in addition to protecting PHI
against privacy breaches.
