Patient identifying information.
Patient identifying information. The term patient identifying information means the name, address, social security number, fingerprints, photograph, or similar information by which the identity of a patient can be determined with reasonable accuracy and speed either directly or by reference to other publicly available information. The term does not include a number assigned to a patient by a treatment program, if that number does not consist of, or contain numbers (such as social security, or driver's license number) which could be used to identify a patient with reasonable accuracy and speed from sources external to the treatment program.
Source
38 CFR § 1.460
Scoping language
For purposes of 1.460 through 1.499 of this part, the following definitions apply: