Masking Medicare beneficiary identifiers

This scenario applies only to Talend Data Management Platform, Talend Big Data Platform, Talend Real-Time Big Data Platform, Talend MDM Platform, Talend Data Services Platform, Talend MDM Platform and Talend Data Fabric.

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Using the tPatternMasking component, you can replace personally identifiable information, such as Medicare Beneficiary Identifiers (MBI), with realistic values in a consistent manner.

For example, 1EG4-TE5-MK73 is a valid MBI.

This scenario describes a Job which uses the following components:

• the tFixedFlowInput component generates MBIs;

• the tPatternMasking component replaces the original MBIs with random digits or letters from a set of named values, or a random digit from a specified range;

• the tLogRow component outputs the substitute data set.