• DocumentCode
    824820
  • Title

    Heuristics for De-identifying Health Data

  • Author

    El Emam, Khaled

  • Author_Institution
    Children´s Hosp. of Eastern Ontario Res. Inst., Ottawa, ON
  • Volume
    6
  • Issue
    4
  • fYear
    2008
  • Firstpage
    58
  • Lastpage
    61
  • 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;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Security & Privacy, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    1540-7993
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/MSP.2008.84
  • Filename
    4588232
    • Link To Document
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