“This resource is incredibly valuable for a nonprofit organization like ours. It enables us to be ready to respond to natural disasters and save lives more effectively.”
With Geocodio's HIPAA/HITECH-compliant Enterprise product, you can standardize, parse, and complete patient addresses, as well as add geocodes and enrich patient address data with Census FIPS codes and more.
* Quickly convert PII and PHI addresses into latitude/longitude
* Clean up, standardize, parse, and complete patient addresses
* Built for high-volume uses. Geocode thousands or millions of patient addresses all in one simple request
* Append useful additional information like school districts, Census demographics, Congressional districts, and FIPS codes to PII and PHI
Yes, according to the US Department of Health and Human Services, addresses are considered PHI (Protected Health Information). HHS has specific rules for how to de-identify addresses. In no situation is the full address including the street address de-identified—a full address is always PHI. If you need to standardize or geocode patient addresses, you need to use a HIPAA-compliant geocoder with a signed BAA. Examples of HIPAA-compliant geocoders include Geocodio.
Yes, you can de-identify addresses to they are no longer PHI—but not the full address. According to HHS, here is how you de-identify patient addresses:
(B) All geographic subdivisions smaller than a state, including street address, city, county, precinct, ZIP code, and their equivalent geocodes, except for the initial three digits of the ZIP code if, according to the current publicly available data from the Bureau of the Census: (1) The geographic unit formed by combining all ZIP codes with the same three initial digits contains more than 20,000 people; and (2) The initial three digits of a ZIP code for all such geographic units containing 20,000 or fewer people is changed to 000
List, batch, and single requests
Geocode and enrich PHI and PII in spreadsheets
Responsive, real-human support if you ever need help
Scalable based on your needs
Store and cache geocodes and normalized addresses without any usage restrictions
SOC 2 Type II audit report and penetration test results available upon request