Beyond safe harbor: Automatic discovery of health information de-identification policy alternatives

IHI'10 - Proceedings of the 1st ACM International Health Informatics Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 163-172

  Benitez, Kathleen ^a   Loukides, Grigorios ^a   Malin, Bradley ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

de identification; privacy; safe harbor

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC DISCOVERY; DATA SETS; DE-IDENTIFICATION; HEALTH INFORMATIONS; HEALTH INSURANCE PORTABILITY AND ACCOUNTABILITY ACTS; HEALTHCARE ORGANIZATIONS; MEDICAL CENTER; PATIENT RECORD; PRIVACY; PRIVACY RULE; SAFE HARBOR; SEARCH PROBLEM; UCI MACHINE LEARNING REPOSITORY; VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY;

ALGORITHMS; HEALTH; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH INSURANCE; INFORMATION SCIENCE;

HEALTH RISKS;

EID: 78650942280     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1882992.1883017     Document Type: Conference Paper

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