Using software agents to preserve individual health data confidentiality in micro-scale geographical analyses

Journal of Biomedical Informatics

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 160-170

  Kamel Boulos, Maged N ^a   Cai, Qiang ^b   Padget, Julian A ^c   Rushton, Gerard ^b  

^a University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^c University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Data confidentiality; Data confidentiality preserving techniques; Distributed computer systems security; Intelligent software agents; Micro scale geographical analyses; Privacy; Spatial analyses using disaggregate data; Virtual organizations; Web services

Indexed keywords

DATA PRIVACY; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; SECURITY OF DATA; VIRTUAL REALITY; WEBSITES;

DATA CONFIDENTIALITY; DATA CONFIDENTIALITY-PRESERVING TECHNIQUES; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS SECURITY; INTELLIGENT SOFTWARE AGENTS; MICRO-SCALE GEOGRAPHICAL ANALYSES; PRIVACY; SPATIAL ANALYSES USING DISAGGREGATE DATA; VIRTUAL ORGANIZATIONS; WEB SERVICES;

HEALTH CARE;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SECURITY; CONFIDENTIALITY; GEOGRAPHY; HEALTH; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRIVACY; PUBLIC HEALTH; SIMULATION;

COMPUTER SECURITY; CONFIDENTIALITY; DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; GENETICS, MEDICAL; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED; SOFTWARE;

EID: 33644962496     PISSN: 15320464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbi.2005.06.003     Document Type: Article

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