Title :
Heuristics for De-identifying Health Data
Author_Institution :
Children´s Hosp. of Eastern Ontario Res. Inst., Ottawa, ON
Abstract :
Before releasing personal health information for secondary uses, such as research or public health monitoring, organizations must de-identify the data they´ve collected. Several common heuristics are useful for this purpose, but they also have limitations.
Keywords :
heuristic programming; medical administrative data processing; health data identification; heuristics; personal health information; Diseases; Drugs; Hospitals; Insurance; Patient monitoring; Pediatrics; Privacy; Public healthcare; Safety; Thumb; de-identification; personal health information; privacy in healthcare; privacy interests; secondary use of data; security;
Journal_Title :
Security & Privacy, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/MSP.2008.84
