Automated de-identification of free-text medical records

BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making

Volumn 8, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Neamatullah, Ishna ^a   Douglass, Margaret M ^a   Lehman, Li Wei H ^a,b   Reisner, Andrew ^a,b   Villarroel, Mauricio ^a,b   Long, William J ^c   Szolovits, Peter ^c   Moody, George B ^a,b   Mark, Roger G ^a,b   Clifford, Gari D ^a,b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b HARVARD MIT DIVISION OF HEALTH SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DATA BASE; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL INFORMATION; PATIENT INFORMATION; BOOK; COMPUTER LANGUAGE; CONFIDENTIALITY; EVALUATION; HEALTH INSURANCE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; MEDICAL RECORD; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; UNITED STATES;

ALGORITHMS; CONFIDENTIALITY; DICTIONARIES AS TOPIC; HEALTH INSURANCE PORTABILITY AND ACCOUNTABILITY ACT; HUMANS; MEDICAL RECORDS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; PATIENT DISCHARGE; PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; SOFTWARE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 50649114172     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6947-8-32     Document Type: Article

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