Embedding a hiding function in a portable electronic health record for privacy preservation

Journal of Medical Systems

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 313-320

  Huang, Lu Chou ^a,b   Chu, Huei Chung ^b   Lien, Chung Yueh ^a   Hsiao, Chia Hung ^c   Kao, Tsair ^a  

^a NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b HUAFAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c TZU CHI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

De identification; Hiding function; Portable electronic health record; Privacy preservation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONFIDENTIALITY; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; EMBEDDING; FEASIBILITY STUDY; PATIENT IDENTIFICATION; PATIENT INFORMATION; PORTABLE ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; PRIVACY; HUMAN; HYPERMEDIA; MEDICAL RECORD;

CONFIDENTIALITY; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; HEALTH RECORDS, PERSONAL; HUMANS; HYPERMEDIA;

EID: 77954061524     PISSN: 01485598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10916-008-9243-8     Document Type: Article

References (27)

1. Code of Federal Regulations (U.S.). Title 45(Part 164), (2002)
2. Batami, B., Patient data confidentiality and patient rights. Int. J. Med. Inform. 62:141-149, 2001 doi:10.1016/S1386-5056(00)00135-0. (Pubitemid 32409896)
3. Fowles, J. B., Kind, A. C., Craft, C., Kind, E. A., Mandel, J. L., and Adlis, S., Patients' interest in reading their medical record: relation with clinical and sociodemographic characteristics and patients' approach to health care. Arch. Intern. Med. 164:7793-7800, 2004 doi:10.1001/archinte.164.7.793. (Pubitemid 38478703)
4. Berman, J. J., Concept-match medical data scrubbing. How pathology text can be used in research. Arch. Pathol. Lab. Med. 127:6680-6686, 2003.
5. Douglass, M., Clifford, G. D., Reisner, A., Moody, G. B., and Mark, R. G., Computer-assisted de-identification of free text in the MIMIC II database. Comput. Cardiol. 31:341-344, 2004 doi:10.1109/CIC.2004.1442942.
6. Gupta, D., Saul, M., and Gilbertson, J., Evaluation of a deidentification (De-Id) software engine to share pathology reports and clinical documents for research. Am. J. Clin. Pathol. 121:2176-2186, 2004 doi:10.1309/E6K33GBPE5C27FYU.
7. Beckwith, B. A., Mahaadevan, R., Balis, U. J., and Kuo, F., Development and evaluation of an open source software tool for deidentification of pathology reports. BMC Med. Inform. Decis. Mak. 6:12, 2006 doi:10.1186/1472-6947-6-12. (Pubitemid 44400579)
8. Szarvas, G., Farkas, R., and Busa-Fekete, R., State-of-the-art anonymization of medical records using an iterative machine learning framework. J. Am. Med. Inform. Assoc. 14:5574-5580, 2007 doi:10.1197/j.jamia.M2441. (Pubitemid 47379570)
9. Wellner, B., Huyck, M., Mardis, S., Aberdeen, J., Morgan, A., Peshkin, L., Yeh, A., Hitzeman, J., and Hirschman, L., Rapidly retargetable approaches to de-identification in medical records. J. Am. Med. Inform. Assoc. 14:5564-5573, 2007 doi:10.1197/jamia.M2435. (Pubitemid 47379573)
10. Uzuner, O., Luo, Y., and Szolovits, P., Evaluating the state-of-theart in automatic de-identification. J. Am. Med. Inform. Assoc. 14:5550-5563, 2007 doi:10.1197/jamia.M2444. (Pubitemid 47379572)
11. Healthcare Information Technology Standards Panel: HITSPAnonymize Component Ver.2.1, 2007, Available from: http://www.hitsp.org/
12. Weerasinghe, D., Rajarajan, M., Elmufti, K., and Rakocevic, V., Patient privacy protection using anonymous access control techniques. Methods Inf. Med. 47:3235-3240, 2008.
13. Pommerening, K., and Reng, M., Secondary use of the electronic health record via pseudonymization. Stud. Health Technol. Inform. 103:441-446, 2004.
14. Noumeir, R., Lemay, A., and Lina, J. M., Pseudonymisation of radiology data for research purposes. J. Digit. Imaging. 20:3284-3295, 2007 doi:10.1007/s10278-006-1051-4.
15. Neubauer, T., and Riedl, B., Improving patients privacy with pseudonymization. Stud. Health Technol. Inform. 136:691-696, 2008.
16. Pommerening, K., Miller, M., Schmidtmann, I., and Michaelis, J., Pseudonyms for cancer registries. Methods Inf. Med. 35:2112-2121, 1996.
17. Healthcare Information Technology Standards Panel: HITSP Pseudonymize Transaction. Ver.2.1, 2007, Available from: http:// www.hitsp.org/
18. IHE IT Infrastructure Technical Framework Supplement 2006- 2007, Cross-Enterprise Document Media Interchange (XDM). Available from: http://www.ihe.net/Technical-Framework.
19. Seitz, L., Pierson, J. M., and Brunie, L., Encrypted storage of medical data on a grid. Methods Inf. Med. 44:2198-2201, 2005.
20. Pangalos, G., Mavridis, I., Ilioudis, C., and Georgiadis, C., Developing a public key infrastructure for a secure regional ehealth environment. Methods Inf. Med. 41:5414-5418, 2002.
21. Brandner, R., Van Der Haak, M., Hartmann, M., Haux, R., and Schmucker, P., Electronic signature for medical documents- integration and evaluation of a public key infrastructure in hospitals. Methods Inf. Med. 41:4321-4330, 2002.
22. Gass, P., Walton, E., Winlow, R., Sagardoyburu, M., Stubbs, P., Kean, D., Tillin, M., Bourhill, G., Yabuta, K., and Takatani, T., Privacy LCD technology for cellular phones. Sharp Tech. J. 95:45-49, 2007.
23. Friedlin, F. J., and McDonald, C. J., A software tool for removing patient identifying information fromclinical documents. J. Am. Med. Inform. Assoc. 15:5601-5610, 2008 doi:10.1197/jamia.M2702.
24. Neamatullah, I., Douglass, M. M., Lehman, L. W., Reisner, A., Villarroel, M., Long, W. J., Szolovits, P., Moody, G. B., Mark, R. G., and Clifford, G. D., Automated de-identification of free-text medical records. BMC Med. Inform. Decis. Mak. 8:32, 2008 doi:10.1186/1472-6947-8-32.
25. Standard, A.I.I.M.: Implementation Guide for the Portable Document Format in Healthcare (PDF/H), AIIM, 2007; Available from : http://www.aiim.org/ standards/article.aspx?ID=33284
26. Standard, A.S.T.M.: E31.28, E2369-05 Standard Specification for Continuity of Care Record (CCR), ASTM International, West Conshohocken, PA, USA, http://www.astm.org, 2005.
27. Dorr, D. A., Phillips,W. F., Phansalkar, S., Sims, S. A., and Hurdle, J. F., Assessing the difficulty and time cost of de-identification in clinical narratives. Methods Inf. Med. 45:3246-3252, 2006.