Inference & Profiling · Permission or license
Creating de-identified data for business activities
The affiliates may use your PHI to create data that cannot be linked to you by removing certain elements such as your name, address, telephone number and member identification number. They may use this de-identified information for certain business activities, for example to create summary reports and to analyze and monitor industry trends.
Details
- Who
- The Cigna affiliates ("we")
- What it does
- Create de-identified data from PHI and use it
- Why
- Certain business activities, e.g. summary reports and industry trend analysis
Supporting quotations
We may use your PHI to create data that cannot be linked to you by removing certain elements from your PHI, such as your name, address, telephone number and member identification number.
We may use this de-identified information to conduct certain business activities; for example, to create summary reports and to analyze and monitor industry trends.
Qualifications & exceptions
- The data is described as de-identified, with the listed identifiers removed.
Not stated here
- The full set of identifiers removed and any "certain business activities" beyond summary reports and trend analysis are not specified.