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Certain HIPAA Privacy Rule requirements apply to the use and disclosure of patient information in articles. If you remove the 18 listed HIPAA identifiers from your article prior to submission, you do not need to obtain a signed privacy authorization from the patient. You must also guarantee that the photos or illustrations you used cannot lead to identification of the patient, and that the situation described is not so unique as to be identifiable by other public sources. If you wish to publish an article that contains identifiers, you must first obtain each patient’s signed HIPAA-compliant authorization.
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