The date of admission (date of diagnosis), date of birth, gender, race, diabetic ketoacidosis status at diagnosis, weight, height, BMI, and medical identification number for each patient were extracted from the patients medical record.
Her medical identification numbers were bogus and she was really interested in a supply for her family.
Personal information including addresses, birthdays, medical identification numbers, social security numbers and some income data belonging to both current and former customers were swept up in the cyber attack, according to a statement from Anthem CEO Joseph Swedish.
Patient and provider identities can be easily tracked down from telephone numbers, fax numbers, Social Security Numbers (SSN), medical identification numbers and medical record numbers.
Information delivered in the alert includes the patient name, patient medical identification (ID) number, and the critical PT/INR result and date.
The linkage of all datasets for the relevant variables used the scrambled unique personal or medical institutional identification number, which was encrypted by the National Health Insurance Administration NHIAA).
The fields common to the different registries and needed to merge both databases were the medical card identification number and the name, surname, date of birth, and sex.
It contains the name of each individual, date and place of birth, gender, national identification number, medical school attended, date of graduation, self-designated specialty, 11 place of practice, vital status, date of death for decedents and date of ceasing the membership.
To protect the participants' privacy, before the recruiting SPIN physician at each centre enters the medical data, a unique patient identification number will automatically be assigned to each participant.
These data were linked to the national Medical Birth Register using an anonymous identification number.
The National Patient Register, the Prescribed Drug Register and the medical files all contain the personal identification number, allowing for deterministic record linkage.
