de-identified data A 'de-identified data' role between a user and given data entails that the user is authorized to see only those fields (including those that are encrypted) which do not contain information that could be use to identify particular individuals (whether patients or medical practitioners) or potentially organizations in the case where an investigation may implicate them. Damion Dooley Damion Dooley's note: There is a case in the "draft tuberculosis contextual data standard" that has this be a boolean selection. If a categorical field is linked directly, and it has no underlings, this indicates that it is being treated as a boolean feature. Generally de-identified data should include HIPAA patient privacy fields as indicated in https://www.hipaa.com/hipaa-protected-health-information-what-does-phi-include/ help:In this dataset, selected data have been de-identified (anonymized) for access by dataset users. data item