Novel K-anonimity algorithm safeguards access to data

Courtesy EurekAlert! - Mathematics and Statistics  Thu, 11/19/2009 - 23:00

(Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute) As electronic health records become more widely deployed, increasing amounts of health information are being collected.

This data has many beneficial applications, such as research, public health, and health system planning. In a recent study, Dr.

Khaled El Emam, the Canada Research Chair in Electronic Health Information at the CHEO Research Institute argues that there is a need for robust de-identification of patient data to avoid the negative impact that individual consent requirements have on studies using health record data for secondary purposes.

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