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Risk-Based De-Identification of Health Data
May/June 2010 (vol. 8 no. 3)
pp. 64-67
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Khaled El Emam, "Risk-Based De-Identification of Health Data," IEEE Security and Privacy, vol. 8, no. 3, pp. 64-67, May/June, 2010.
 
 
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@article{ 10.1109/MSP.2010.103,
author = {Khaled El Emam},
title = {Risk-Based De-Identification of Health Data},
journal ={IEEE Security and Privacy},
volume = {8},
number = {3},
issn = {1540-7993},
year = {2010},
pages = {64-67},
doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MSP.2010.103},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA},
}
 
 
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PY - 2010
KW - privacy
KW - healthcare
KW - re-identification
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Khaled El Emam, Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario
This article describes a method for assessing the overall risk of re-identification for a health data set and how that risk information can be used to decide how much to de-identify the data before it's disclosed. Such an approach ensures that the amount of distortion to the data is proportionate to the risk involved in disclosing a particular data set to a particular data recipient.

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Index Terms:
privacy, healthcare, re-identification, data de-identification
Citation:
Khaled El Emam, "Risk-Based De-Identification of Health Data," IEEE Security and Privacy, vol. 8, no. 3, pp. 64-67, May/June 2010, doi:10.1109/MSP.2010.103
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