OMB Individually Reported

Healthcare Text Anonymizer

High riskExact public inventory row

Description

This application reduces the manual processing time for anonymization and improves the accuracy of removing identifiable information in healthcare text. This is important because one of the applications of this project is to publicly release data on the medical impact of the new electronic health records system, Oracle. As Oracle gets rolled out to more facilities, there is a need to release more anonymized incident reports of Oracle's impact on patient health. Manually anonymizing all of these reports is not scalable nor sustainable, which is why this AI application helps.

Detailed example

Excel file with additional column(s) of anonymized text - this application removes identifying information (name, addresses, etc.) in healthcare text.

AI / analytics pattern

Agentic AI: AI systems that perform tasks or make decisions autonomously with minimal human intervention.

Automation level / stage

a) Pre-deployment – The use case is in a development or acquisition status.

Expected benefit

Increased efficiency and increased security of patient Personally Identifiable Information (PII)

Controls / human review

ATO: Not reported; PIA: Not published