By Regulation
HIPAA Compliance
Protect patient and research data while supporting HIPAA, GDPR and secure analytics with masking, tokenization and audit controls.
How Mage Data Helps
HIPAA requires covered entities and business associates to implement safeguards for Protected Health Information. Mage Data automates PHI protection across your entire organization.
HIPAA's Privacy Rule and Security Rule establish standards for the protection of individually identifiable health information. Mage Data discovers all 18 HIPAA identifiers across your enterprise and applies appropriate de-identification techniques.
Key Challenges We Solve
- Privacy Rule -- PHI use and disclosure controls
- Security Rule -- Administrative, physical, and technical safeguards
- HITECH Act -- Breach notification and enforcement
- Minimum Necessary Rule -- Data minimization for access
Key Capabilities
HIPAA Compliance Overview
Prebuilt HIPAA configurations
Leverage ready-to-use policies that align with the specific security and privacy rules of HIPAA.
Healthcare data discovery
Scan your digital estate for 18 specific HIPAA identifiers and other protected health information (PHI).
Format-preserving masking
Secure data while maintaining its original format, ensuring that healthcare applications continue to function correctly.
PHI de-identification support
Implement Safe Harbor or Expert Determination methods to de-identify data for research and analytics.
Frequently Asked Questions
The HIPAA Privacy Rule at 45 CFR 164.514(b) allows two methods. Safe Harbor requires removing the eighteen identifier categories the rule lists. Expert Determination requires a qualified person, using generally accepted statistical and scientific methods, to determine that re-identification risk is very small and to document that analysis. Mage Data supports both: a Safe Harbor policy out of the box, and risk analysis to underpin Expert Determination.
No. Health information de-identified under either method at 45 CFR 164.514(b) is not protected health information, so the Privacy Rule's use and disclosure restrictions no longer apply. The de-identification has to be done correctly and consistently for that to hold — which is why Mage Data records what was found and what was applied to every field.
Yes. Protected health information stays in scope wherever it is held, including test databases, analytics sandboxes and developer machines. De-identifying data before it is provisioned takes those environments out of scope — and Mage Data does it at the point of provisioning, so no environment holds PHI it does not need.
Dates more precise than a year, ZIP codes beyond the first three digits, and identifiers inside free-text fields such as clinical notes. Free text is the most common gap, because column-name rules do not find it. Mage Data's discovery reads the content, not just the column name, and applies NLP to free text so those identifiers are found and treated.
Mage Data locates protected health information across structured and unstructured sources, applies the appropriate treatment to each identifier type — including those found in free text — and records what was discovered and what was applied, so Safe Harbor can be evidenced and Expert Determination can be supported with re-identification risk analysis.
Simplify HIPAA Compliance
See how Mage Data automates PHI discovery and de-identification to reduce compliance risk and audit preparation effort.