Systems and methods for securing electronic data that includes personally identifying information

One or more non-transitory computer-readable media having computer-executable instructions embodied thereon that, when executed, perform a method comprising:

• obtaining a Health Level Seven (HL7) message including Personal Health Information (PHI) data;
• identifying a field having PHI data in the HL7 message;
• recognizing a value format of the PHI data in the field;
• removing the PHI data from the HL7 message;
• and
• creating a new HL7 message by inserting non-PHI that conforms to the value format of the field into the HL7 message from which the PHI data is removed.

One or more non-transitory computer-readable media having computer-executable instructions embodied thereon that, when executed, perform a method comprising:

• obtaining messages that include Personal Health Information (PHI) encoded as electronic data;
• for each of the messages, identifying one or more fields containing PHI data;
• for each of the one or more fields identified in each message, recognizing a value format of the PHI data in the field;
• removing the PHI data from each of the one or more fields identified as containing PHI data;
• and
• for each of the one or more fields from which PHI data is removed, inserting non-PHI data that conforms to the value format of that field into the message.