Patent ID: 8473452

Claim:
A system for de-identifying health care data comprising: at least one health care database, the at least one health care database including at least one patient record, each patient record including a plurality of identification fields associated with a patient and at least one health care field, wherein at least one subset of the identification fields associated with a patient uniquely identifies the patient; and one or more processors in communication with the at least one health care database and a second database, wherein the one or more processors execute instructions that cause the one or more processors to: select a patient record from the at least one health care database, extract alphanumeric information from a plurality of the identification fields included in the patient record, the extracted alphanumeric information uniquely identifying the patient; generate an encrypted unique patient identifier by encrypting the extracted alphanumeric information, generate a de-identified patient record, wherein the de-identified patient record includes the at least one health care field that is included in the selected patient record and the encrypted unique patient identifier, and wherein the de-identified patient record does not include any information that identifies the patient other than the encrypted unique patient identifier, and transmit the de-identified patient record to the second database.