Simply removing the name isn't enough to anonymize the data, because as another commenter noted, the data submitted includes detailed patient histories and info

Simply removing the name isn't enough to anonymize the data, because as another commenter noted, the data submitted includes detailed patient histories and information about all of their other conditions, which is more than enough to uniquely identify someone. And you can't simply strip out that data, because a lot of the subsequent analysis of effectiveness is dependent on it.