De-identification of primary care electronic medical records free-text data in Ontario, Canada

BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Tu, Karen ^a,b,c   Klein Geltink, Julie ^a   Mitiku, Tezeta F ^a   Mihai, Chiriac ^a   Martin, Joel ^d  

^a INSTITUTE FOR CLINICAL EVALUATIVE SCIENCES   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c TORONTO WESTERN HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^d NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; CANADA; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONFIDENTIALITY; GROUP PRACTICE; HUMAN; MANAGEMENT; MEDICAL RECORD; METHODOLOGY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; STANDARD; VALIDATION STUDY;

CONFIDENTIALITY; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; GROUP PRACTICE; HUMANS; MEDICAL RECORD LINKAGE; ONTARIO; PATIENT IDENTIFICATION SYSTEMS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; SECURITY MEASURES; SOFTWARE;

EID: 77953640249     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6947-10-35     Document Type: Article

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