Heuristics for de-identifying health data

IEEE Security and Privacy

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 58-61

  El Emam, Khaled ^a  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF EASTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA SETS; HEALTH DATA; LIMITED DATA; PERSONAL HEALTH; POLICY-MAKING; PUBLIC HEALTH;

HEALTH; HEURISTIC METHODS; LAWS AND LEGISLATION; PUBLIC POLICY;

HEALTH RISKS;

EID: 49249087521     PISSN: 15407993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MSP.2008.84     Document Type: Article

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3. K. El Emam et al., "Evaluating Common De-Identification Heuristics for Personal Health Information," J. Medical Internet Research, vol. 8, no. 4, 2006, p. e28.
4. K. El Emam and F. Dankar, "Protecting Privacy Using k-Anonymity," J. Am. Medical Informatics Assoc., Sept./Oct. 2008, to appear.