De-identification of free-text medical records in health information exchange

DOI

10.2991/ccis-13.2013.56How to use a DOI?

Keywords

de-identification; PHI; HIE; privacy; data security;

Abstract

Since the health information exchange (HIE) becomes more and more important and numerous systems have been implemented among medical institutions and regions, there also grows the concern of data security and privacy protection. In the prior work, we have designed and developed an international clinical data exchange system named Global Dolphin, technically achieving the goal of health information exchange between China and Japan. However, to put the system into practical use, we have to take the different privacy protection rules into account. In the clinical data exchange implementation, we tried to conform to the stricter privacy protection standards and designed a protected health information (PHI) de-identification system to keep the personal information secure from third parties. Since China and Japan do not yet have detailed rules and guidelines such as the safe harbor method in Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), thus we have referenced some of the HIPAA rules and guidelines about PHI, and used a dictionary and regular expressions pattern matching de-identification means to protect personal privacy.

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© 2013, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Tian-shu Zhou
AU  - Peng-fei Li
AU  - Jing-song Li
PY  - 2013/11
DA  - 2013/11
TI  - De-identification of free-text medical records in health information exchange
BT  - Proceedings of the The 1st International Workshop on Cloud Computing and Information Security
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 242
EP  - 245
SN  - 1951-6851
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/ccis-13.2013.56
DO  - 10.2991/ccis-13.2013.56
ID  - Zhou2013/11
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