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My friend helped vaccinate 16 with a Telegram bot

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Re: My friend helped vaccinate 16 with a Telegram bot

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> It’s personally identifiable information (short: “PII”), but it’s not medical data. Huh, is that the case in Italy? In the US your name and date of birth are very much PHI

> In the US your name and date of birth are very much PHI

Your name and date of birth when held by a HIPAA covered entity (where the mere fact of them being held by such an entity is a nexus to healthcare information from which it may be possible to deduce more specific healthcare information and associate it with the individual with only public data) is PHI. That’s true of PII generally.

Re: My friend helped vaccinate 16 with a Telegram bot

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Yeah, Name and DOB are covered under HIPAA as PHI.

Alberto here, I made the bot. I'm not a lawyer but "codice fiscale" is not PHI. The Italian Data Protection Authority puts codice fiscale under PII[0] and it's not mentioned in the PHI section[1,2,3,4]. [0] https://www.garanteprivacy.it/home/diritti/cosa-intendiamo-p... [1] https://www.garanteprivacy.it/temi/dati-sanitari [2] https://www.garanteprivacy.it/faq/fascicolo-sanitario [3] https://www.garanteprivacy.it/faq/…

First off, good work! It is always nice to help people deal on this (sicked and badthought) platforms.

Anyhow, you should check also if a "tessera sanitaria" is considered a PHI since it includes the "codice fiscale" (and if I recall correctly, it is used often in "fascicoli sanitari" to identify an individual).

But well, I'm not a lawyer either.

Re: My friend helped vaccinate 16 with a Telegram bot

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Looks like each country has some kind of i depended developer that tries to fix poor official websites for vaccine appointments.

In is there is https://vaccinefinder.org/ (and probably others).

For Poland I've built something similar (but contrasting with the article I don't take any PII, I just post the available vaccination spots, so the users themselves need to book the spot with the info I provide): https://szczepienia.github.io

(sorry no English version)

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