Risk-based de-identification of health data

IEEE Security and Privacy

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 64-67

  El Emam, Khaled ^a  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF EASTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Data de identification; Healthcare; Privacy; Re identification

Indexed keywords

DATA DE-IDENTIFICATION; DATA SETS; DE-IDENTIFICATION; HEALTH DATA; RISK INFORMATION; RISK-BASED;

HEALTH CARE; HEALTH RISKS;

DATA PRIVACY;

EID: 77952923929     PISSN: 15407993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MSP.2010.103     Document Type: Article

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