A semantic framework to protect the privacy of electronic health records with non-numerical attributes

Journal of Biomedical Informatics

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 294-303

  Martínez, Sergio ^a   Sánchez, David ^a   Valls, Aida ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT ROVIRA I VIRGILI   (Spain)

Author keywords

Electronic health records; Privacy; Semantic similarity; SNOMED CT; Statistical disclosure control

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORD; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORD (EHRS); SEMANTIC FRAMEWORK; SEMANTIC SIMILARITY; SENSITIVE ATTRIBUTE; SNOMED-CT; SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBERS; STATISTICAL DISCLOSURE CONTROL;

DATA PRIVACY; DIAGNOSIS; HOSPITAL DATA PROCESSING; RECORDS MANAGEMENT; SEMANTICS;

NUMERICAL METHODS;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; HUMAN; KNOWLEDGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; SEMANTICS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL DISCLOSURE CONTROL METHOD; SYMPTOM;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SECURITY; CONFIDENTIALITY; DATABASES, FACTUAL; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; HUMANS; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; SEMANTICS; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC;

EID: 84875634268     PISSN: 15320464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbi.2012.11.005     Document Type: Article

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