Personally Identifiable Information

PII (personally identifiable information) or SPI (sensitive personal information), as used in information security and privacy laws, is information that can be used on its own or with other information to identify, contact, or locate a single person, or to identify an individual in context. PII is any data that could potentially identify a specific individual. Any information that can distinguish one person from another and can be used for de-anonymizing anonymous data can be considered PII. The application protects the sensitive PII data as per user access.

Note:

All PII is personal data, but not all personal data is PII.

In Oracle Argus Safety, the following data is considered as PII:

• Patient Initials
• Patient Date of Birth
• Parent Initials
• Parent Date of Birth

The PII Data can be controlled via user group accesses and common profile switches. The user group accesses that can be used to control the PII data fields are:

• Case Patient - Patient Information
• Case Patient - Patient Details
• Case Patient - Parent Information
• Case Patient - Parent Details

These user groups accesses are found under Argus Console > Access Management > Groups.

In the Case Form, the patient and parent fields are grouped under the Information/Details sections as shown below.

Patient Information and Details Sections

Parent Information and Details Sections

The fields are controlled through the user groups as shown in the table below.

Group Access Name	Value	Case Form Behavior	Impacted Case Form Fields
Case Patient - Patient Information	Modify View No Access	User can add/modify all the fields User can only view the fields The fields are hidden and inaccessible	Patient Information Title First Name Middle Name Last Name Address 1 Address 2 City State Postal Code Country Email Address Protect Confidentiality
Case Patient - Patient Details	Modify View No Access	User can add/modify all the fields User can only view the fields The fields are hidden and inaccessible	Patient Information Initials Patient Details Date of Birth Age and Age Units Age Group Weight and Units Height and Units Gender Pregnant Date of LMP Breastfeeding BMI Body Area Occupation Age At Vaccination and Units Ethnic Group Military Status Country Pregnant at time of Vaccination
Case Patient - Parent Information	Modify View No Access	User can add/modify all the fields User can only view the fields The fields are hidden and inaccessible	Parent Information Title First Name Middle Name Last Name
Case Patient - Parent Details	Modify View No Access	User can add/modify all the fields User can only view the fields The fields are hidden and inaccessible	Parent Information Initials Parent Details Date of Birth Age and Age Units Weight and Units Height and Units Gender Date of LMP Parent Breastfeeding Age At Vaccination and Units Ethnic Group Medical History

Note:

The initials field is located under the Information sections, but still controlled through the Details access group.

This default behavior can be overridden using a set of common profile switches. The switches located at Argus Console > System Configuration > System Management (Common Profile Switches) > Case Processing > Group Data Access are used for this purpose. These switches help the Initials and Date of Birth fields to be controlled via the alternate user groups as shown below.

Switch Name	Use	Default Value
Access on Patient Initials	Sets the Patient Initials either to be part of Patient Information or Details Group	Initials part of Patient Details Access Group
Access on Patient Date of Birth	Sets the Patient Date of Birth either to be part of Patient Information or Details Group	Date of Birth part of Patient Details Access Group
Access on Parent Initials	Sets the Parent Initials either to be part of Parent Information or Details Group	Initials part of Parent Details Access Group
Access on Parent Date of Birth	Sets the Parent Date of Birth either to be part of Parent Information or Details Group	Date of Birth part of Parent Details Access Group