Our data posture
Invest Hamilton County does not collect, store, or transmit Protected Health Information (PHI).
All BH data published through Alex is aggregated at the city-band level or higher, with a 5-cell minimum suppression floor. We are not a covered entity under HIPAA; this dashboard is a public-benefit analytical resource, not a clinical platform.
What we DO collect
- Email addresses (with explicit consent at /subscribe).
- Non-PII demographic context you provide voluntarily: employer name, role.
- Aggregate dashboard usage (cookieless analytics, no PII).
What we DO NOT collect
- Any clinical information: diagnoses, treatment plans, prescription data, insurance claims, individual health records.
- Any data that could be used to re-identify a patient or family member.
- Browser fingerprints. Cross-site tracking. Behavioral profiles.
Aggregation floor
Analyses IHC derives aggregate at the city-band level or higher with a 5-cell minimum suppression floor. If a cell would surface fewer than 5 underlying units (people, providers, employers), the cell is suppressed. Federal small-area estimates, such as the census-tract figures from the Census Bureau and CDC PLACES in the tract navigator, are shown as their publishers release them.
Why this matters
Behavioral health data carries more weight than the average labor-market or economic-development dataset. Re-identification at the individual or family level can affect employment, custody, parole, insurance underwriting, and personal safety. The aggregation floor + PHI-free posture together close that exposure surface for everyone who shows up in our dashboards.
Independent verification
The aggregation-floor rules run on every server-side query before any visualization renders. How the rules work, and where the data comes from, is described in Methodology and sources. The code itself is Invest Hamilton County's and is not published.
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