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Anonymization of longitudinal electronic medical records

Tamersoy, A., Loukides, Grigorios ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0888-5061, Nergiz, M. E., Saygin, Y. and Malin, B. 2012. Anonymization of longitudinal electronic medical records. IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine 16 (3) , pp. 413-423. 10.1109/TITB.2012.2185850

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Abstract

Electronic medical record (EMR) systems have enabled healthcare providers to collect detailed patient information from the primary care domain. At the same time, longitudinal data from EMRs are increasingly combined with biorepositories to generate personalized clinical decision support protocols. Emerging policies encourage investigators to disseminate such data in a deidentified form for reuse and collaboration, but organizations are hesitant to do so because they fear such actions will jeopardize patient privacy. In particular, there are concerns that residual demographic and clinical features could be exploited for reidentification purposes. Various approaches have been developed to anonymize clinical data, but they neglect temporal information and are, thus, insufficient for emerging biomedical research paradigms. This paper proposes a novel approach to share patient-specific longitudinal data that offers robust privacy guarantees, while preserving data utility for many biomedical investigations. Our approach aggregates temporal and diagnostic information using heuristics inspired from sequence alignment and clustering methods. We demonstrate that the proposed approach can generate anonymized data that permit effective biomedical analysis using several patient cohorts derived from the EMR system of the Vanderbilt University Medical Center.

Item Type: Article
Date Type: Publication
Status: Published
Schools: Computer Science & Informatics
Subjects: Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
Uncontrolled Keywords: Anonymization, data privacy, electronic medical records (EMRs), longitudinal data
Publisher: IEEE
ISSN: 1089-7771
Last Modified: 20 Oct 2022 09:23
URI: https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/31761

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