Introduction
The IDOL PHI Package contains tools that allow you to locate Protected Healthcare Information (PHI) in your data, to ensure compliance with regulations such as the Standards of Privacy of Individually Identifiable Health Information implemented as part of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).
The IDOL PHI Package uses IDOL Eduction Grammars (.ecr files).
IDOL Eduction is a tool for finding entities (small pieces of information such as names and phone numbers) in text. Eduction grammars contain descriptions of the entities. In some cases, this might be a list of fixed values (such as names), and in others it might be pattern matching tools that find data of a particular type (such as a set of digits that make up a phone number).
The Eduction grammars included in the IDOL PHI Package describe different kinds of