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Privacy & Confidentiality Issues:
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SEER-Medicare: HIPAA Regulations & SEER-Medicare Data
Researchers who wish to use the SEER-Medicare may have concerns about complying with the Health
Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) regulations. The SEER-Medicare data are considered by HIPAA
requirements as a limited identifiable data set with Data Use Agreement. This exception allows for the release of
the SEER-Medicare without obtaining authorization from individual patients (see Federal Register, August 14, 2002,
pg 53235).
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