# Redact medical conditions

> Redact diagnoses and medical conditions from clinical notes, claim narratives, and support transcripts.

Canonical: https://bitbanger.in/entities/condition
Last updated: 2026-10-27

Category: Health data · Entity type: `healthcare.condition`

A condition is arguably the most sensitive health datum and the hardest to detect, because it is ordinary language rather than a pattern. This is a model-only type.

## How Redactly detects medical conditions

- Detected by the model; there is no pattern or cue that reliably identifies a diagnosis.
- Spans are extended to whole words so a truncated term is not left half-visible.
- Medications named in the same sentence are reported separately as healthcare.medication.

## Why redact medical conditions?

Health conditions are special-category data under GDPR Article 9 and protected health information under HIPAA.

## Example request

```bash
curl -X POST https://api.bitbanger.in/v1/redact \
  -H "X-API-Key: rdct_your_key_here" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"text": "Patient reports type 2 diabetes managed with metformin.", "style": "replace"}'
```

## FAQ

**Does Redactly redact medical conditions automatically?**

Yes. Send text to the API and every detected type is redacted, including medical conditions. To redact only this type, pass the value healthcare.condition in the entities filter. No training or configuration is required.

**What happens to medical conditions after redaction?**

With style set to replace, each match becomes [healthcare.condition] — the entity type in square brackets. Setting style to mask replaces every character with a block character, and remove deletes the span entirely.

## Related entity types

- [Medications](https://bitbanger.in/entities/medication) — Redact drug names and prescriptions from clinical text and support transcripts.
- [Health status](https://bitbanger.in/entities/health-status) — Redact statements about a person's health, disability, or medical status from free text.
- [Medical record numbers](https://bitbanger.in/entities/medical-record) — Redact MRNs and patient record identifiers from clinical notes, referrals, and export files.

Try it on your own text: https://bitbanger.in/entities/condition