Difference between revisions of "De-Identified Patient Data"
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Removal of important identifiers (Birth date, gender, address, age, etc) from the patient data before it is used for research or other purposes. | Removal of important identifiers (Birth date, gender, address, age, etc) from the patient data before it is used for research or other purposes. | ||
Information is de-identified when it is not possible to 'reasonable ascertain' the identity of a person from that data. | Information is de-identified when it is not possible to 'reasonable ascertain' the identity of a person from that data. | ||
| − | + | The definition of Irreversible de-identification of data is context driven. The capacity of re-identify de-identified data may depend critically on particular resources( Intellectual, Information Technology, Access to multiple data sets).(1) | |
Efforts are being made for automatize the anonymization of health information by developing de-identifications models that can successfully remove personal health information. (2) | Efforts are being made for automatize the anonymization of health information by developing de-identifications models that can successfully remove personal health information. (2) | ||
1. Australian Government. Office of the Privacy Commissioner. | 1. Australian Government. Office of the Privacy Commissioner. | ||
2.State-of-the-art Anonymization of Medical Records Using an Iterative Machine Learning Framework; György Szarvas, Richárd Farkas, Róbert Busa-Fekete b J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2007 Sep–Oct; 14(5): 574–580. | 2.State-of-the-art Anonymization of Medical Records Using an Iterative Machine Learning Framework; György Szarvas, Richárd Farkas, Róbert Busa-Fekete b J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2007 Sep–Oct; 14(5): 574–580. | ||
Revision as of 05:15, 23 November 2009
De-identified patient data: Removal of important identifiers (Birth date, gender, address, age, etc) from the patient data before it is used for research or other purposes. Information is de-identified when it is not possible to 'reasonable ascertain' the identity of a person from that data. The definition of Irreversible de-identification of data is context driven. The capacity of re-identify de-identified data may depend critically on particular resources( Intellectual, Information Technology, Access to multiple data sets).(1) Efforts are being made for automatize the anonymization of health information by developing de-identifications models that can successfully remove personal health information. (2)
1. Australian Government. Office of the Privacy Commissioner. 2.State-of-the-art Anonymization of Medical Records Using an Iterative Machine Learning Framework; György Szarvas, Richárd Farkas, Róbert Busa-Fekete b J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2007 Sep–Oct; 14(5): 574–580.
