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HIPAA Safe Harbor identifier scanner
Heuristic flags for common identifier patterns in the 18 Safe Harbor types. A hit is not a legal finding; absence of hits is not de-identification.
Runs in your browser. Nothing is uploaded. Names without context are hard to regex — review those by hand.
Email addresses
jane.doe@email.com
Phone numbers
415-555-0199
MRN / record-like IDs
MRN: 44821
Specific dates (except year)
03/12/1978
ZIP / postal codes
44821 · 94107
Educational only. Not medical advice, not a regulatory determination, and not a substitute for qualified RA/QA, legal, clinical, or statistical counsel. HIPAA Safe Harbor scanner does not submit to FDA, Notified Bodies, or IRBs.
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