Canada personal health identification number (PHIN)

Article
2024-08-19

Format

nine digits

Pattern

nine digits

Checksum

Keyword Highlighting

Supported

When keyword highlighting is supported in the contextual summary for a sensitive information type or a trainable classifier, in the Contextual Summary view of activity explorer, the keywords in a document that were matched to a policy are highlighted.

Definition

A DLP policy has medium confidence that it's detected this type of sensitive information if, within a proximity of 300 characters:

The regular expression Regex_canada_phin finds content that matches the pattern.
At least two keywords from Keyword_canada_phin or Keyword_canada_provinces are found.

<!-- Canada PHIN -->
<Entity id="722e12ac-c89a-4ec8-a1b7-fea3469f89db" patternsProximity="300" recommendedConfidence="75">
  <Pattern confidenceLevel="75">
        <IdMatch idRef="Regex_canada_phin" />
        <Any minMatches="2">
          <Match idRef="Keyword_canada_phin" />
          <Match idRef="Keyword_canada_provinces" />
        </Any>
  </Pattern>
</Entity>

Keywords

Keyword_canada_phin

social insurance number
health information act
income tax information
manitoba health
health registration
prescription purchases
benefit eligibility
personal health
power of attorney
registration number
personal health number
practitioner referral
wellness professional
patient referral
health and wellness

Keyword_canada_provinces

Nunavut
Quebec
Northwest Territories
Ontario
British Columbia
Alberta
Saskatchewan
Manitoba
Yukon
Newfoundland and Labrador
New Brunswick
Nova Scotia
Prince Edward Island
Canada

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