State-of-the-art Anonymization of Medical Records Using an Iterative Machine Learning Framework
Author(s) -
György Szarvas,
Richárd Farkas,
Róbert BusaFekete
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
journal of the american medical informatics association
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.614
H-Index - 150
eISSN - 1527-974X
pISSN - 1067-5027
DOI - 10.1197/j.jamia.m2441
Subject(s) - computer science , software portability , health insurance portability and accountability act , security token , identification (biology) , protected health information , named entity recognition , precision and recall , artificial intelligence , information retrieval , unified medical language system , recall , medical record , measure (data warehouse) , machine learning , data mining , natural language processing , confidentiality , public health , programming language , computer security , medicine , radiology , philosophy , health promotion , hrhis , task (project management) , linguistics , biology , management , botany , nursing , economics
The anonymization of medical records is of great importance in the human life sciences because a de-identified text can be made publicly available for non-hospital researchers as well, to facilitate research on human diseases. Here the authors have developed a de-identification model that can successfully remove personal health information (PHI) from discharge records to make them conform to the guidelines of the Health Information Portability and Accountability Act.
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