How can you adequately protect the health information of people living in rural areas where the population is so low that it wouldn’t be difficult to determine who a person of a certain age with a certain diagnosis is?

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Colorado does have a lot of sparsely populated areas. That’s why it’s so important to understand that the reports from the CO APCD gathers all the information for zip codes with fewer than 20,000 residents into one zip code of “000”—it won’t be possible to tell where those claims came from.

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