Re: Disclosure of SSN -Reply

["Ron Amoling" <AMOLINGR@JOSLAB.HARVARD.EDU>]

At the risk of sounding politically incorrect, I'm more concerned 
about not being able to retrieve the dose records of Wang Yang that 
John H. Smith.  It's also very likely that Wang Yang wouldn't have a 
SSN in the first place.

In a biomedical research environment, the large number of foreign 
workers, many of whom lack a SSN, compounds the problem.  Over the 
years we've used a person's name and DOB as the identifier when a SSN 
is not available.

Ron Amoling
amolingr@joslab.harvard.edu