P2P watch: Personal health information detection in peer-to-peer file-sharing networks

Journal of Medical Internet Research

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Sokolova, Marina ^a,b   El Emam, Khaled ^a,b   Arbuckle, Luk ^a   Neri, Emilio ^a   Rose, Sean ^c   Jonker, Elizabeth ^a  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF EASTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^c Privacy Analytics   (Canada)

Author keywords

Natural language processing; Personal health information; Privacy; Text data mining

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER NETWORK; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SECURITY; CONFIDENTIALITY; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; EVALUATION; HUMAN; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MEDICAL RECORD;

COMPUTER COMMUNICATION NETWORKS; COMPUTER SECURITY; CONFIDENTIALITY; DISCLOSURE; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; HEALTH RECORDS, PERSONAL; HUMANS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84871696721     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14388871     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2196/jmir.1898     Document Type: Article

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