Evaluating the State-of-the-Art in Automatic De-identification

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 550-563

  Uzuner, Özlem ^a   Luo, Yuan ^a   Szolovits, Peter ^b  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EVALUATION; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; INFORMATION SCIENCE; INFORMATION SYSTEM; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL RECORD; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PERFORMANCE; SYSTEM ANALYSIS;

CONFIDENTIALITY; EVALUATION STUDIES; HEALTH INSURANCE PORTABILITY AND ACCOUNTABILITY ACT; HUMANS; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; PATIENT DISCHARGE; TERMINOLOGY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34548508913     PISSN: 10675027     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1197/jamia.M2444     Document Type: Article

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