Utility-aware anonymization of diagnosis codes

IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 60-70

  Loukides, Grigorios ^a   Gkoulalas Divanis, Aris ^b  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b IBM RESEARCH   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Anonymization; Diagnosis codes; Privacy

Indexed keywords

DATA PRIVACY; DIAGNOSIS; HOSPITAL DATA PROCESSING; LARGE DATASET; MEDICAL COMPUTING;

ANONYMIZATION; BIOMEDICAL ANALYSIS; EFFECTIVE ALGORITHMS; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; GENERALIZATION AND SUPPRESSIONS; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDIES; NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH; VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY;

CODES (SYMBOLS);

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CODING; COMPUTER SECURITY; DISEASES; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; FACTUAL DATABASE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; PRIVACY; PROCEDURES; UNITED STATES; ARTICLE; METHODOLOGY;

CLINICAL CODING; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SECURITY; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DISEASE; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; PRIVACY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84885100895     PISSN: 21682194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TITB.2012.2212281     Document Type: Article

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