Protecting patient privacy by quantifiable control of disclosures in disseminated databases

International Journal of Medical Informatics

Volumn 73, Issue 7-8, 2004, Pages 599-606

  Ohno Machado, Lucila ^a   Silveira, Paulo Sérgio Panse ^b   Vinterbo, Staal ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Anonymization; Confidentiality; Consumer informatics; Patient privacy; Predictive modeling

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DATABASE SYSTEMS; DIAGNOSIS; HEALTH CARE; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION;

PATIENT DATA; PATIENT PRIVACY;

PATIENT MONITORING;

ALGORITHM; AMBIGUITY; CONFERENCE PAPER; DATA BASE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HUMAN; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; MEDICAL RECORD; PATIENT RIGHT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRIVACY; PROTECTION; PUBLIC HEALTH; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; ANONYMOUS TESTING; CONFIDENTIALITY; DATABASES; DISCLOSURE; HUMANS; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED; PRIVACY;

EID: 3042715886     PISSN: 13865056     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2004.05.002     Document Type: Conference Paper

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