Protected health information (PHI) - Amazon CloudWatch Logs
Data identifier ARNs for protected health information data types (PHI)
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Protected health information (PHI)

CloudWatch Logs data protection can find the following types of protected health information (PHI).

If you set a data protection policy, CloudWatch Logs scans for the data identifiers that you specify no matter what geolocation the log group is located in. The information in the Countries and regions column in this table designates whether two-letter country codes must be appended to the data identifier to detect the appropriate keywords for those countries and regions.

Type of data Data identifier ID Keyword required Countries and regions

Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) registration number

DrugEnforcementAgencyNumber

dea number, dea registration

United States

Health Insurance Card Number (EHIC)

HealthInsuranceCardNumber

assicurazione sanitaria numero, carta assicurazione numero, carte d’assurance maladie, carte européenne d'assurance maladie, ceam, ehic, ehic#, finlandehicnumber#, gesundheitskarte, hälsokort, health card, health card number, health insurance card, health insurance number, insurance card number, krankenversicherungskarte, krankenversicherungsnummer, medical account number, numero conto medico, numéro d’assurance maladie, numéro de carte d’assurance, numéro de compte medical, número de cuenta médica, número de seguro de salud, número de tarjeta de seguro, sairaanhoitokortin, sairausvakuutuskortti, sairausvakuutusnumero, sjukförsäkring nummer, sjukförsäkringskort, suomi ehic-numero, tarjeta de salud, terveyskortti, tessera sanitaria assicurazione numero, versicherungsnummer

European Union

Health Insurance Claim Number (HICN)

HealthInsuranceClaimNumber

health insurance claim number, hic no, hic no., hic number, hic#, hicn, hicn#, hicno#

United States

Health insurance or medical identification number

HealthInsuranceNumber

carte d'assuré social, carte vitale, insurance card

France

Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System (HCPCS) code

HealthcareProcedureCode

current procedural terminology, hcpcs, healthcare common procedure coding system

United States

Medicare Beneficiary Number (MBN)

MedicareBeneficiaryNumber

mbi, medicare beneficiary

United States

National Drug Code (NDC)

NationalDrugCode

national drug code, ndc

United States

National Provider Identifier (NPI)

NationalProviderId

hipaa, n.p.i., national provider, npi

United States

National Health Service (NHS) number

NhsNumber

national health service, NHS

Great Britain

Personal Health Number

PersonalHealthNumber

canada healthcare number, msp number, care number, phn, soins de santé

Canada

Data identifier ARNs for protected health information data types (PHI)

The following lists the data identifier Amazon Resource Names (ARNs) that can be used in protected health information (PHI) data protection policies.

PHI data identifier ARNs
arn:aws-cn:dataprotection::aws:data-identifier/DrugEnforcementAgencyNumber-US
arn:aws-cn:dataprotection::aws:data-identifier/HealthcareProcedureCode-US
arn:aws-cn:dataprotection::aws:data-identifier/HealthInsuranceCardNumber-EU
arn:aws-cn:dataprotection::aws:data-identifier/HealthInsuranceClaimNumber-US
arn:aws-cn:dataprotection::aws:data-identifier/HealthInsuranceNumber-FR
arn:aws-cn:dataprotection::aws:data-identifier/MedicareBeneficiaryNumber-US
arn:aws-cn:dataprotection::aws:data-identifier/NationalDrugCode-US
arn:aws-cn:dataprotection::aws:data-identifier/NationalInsuranceNumber-GB
arn:aws-cn:dataprotection::aws:data-identifier/NationalProviderId-US
arn:aws-cn:dataprotection::aws:data-identifier/NhsNumber-GB
arn:aws-cn:dataprotection::aws:data-identifier/PersonalHealthNumber-CA