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ArticleAMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium2010

Anonymization of administrative billing codes with repeated diagnoses through censoring.

Acar Tamersoy, Grigorios Loukides, Joshua C Denny, Bradley Malin

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8 citing papers in PubMed.

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  3. Genetic data sharing and privacy.Neuroinformatics · 2015
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  4. The Electronic Medical Records and Genomics (eMERGE) Network: past, present, and future.Genetics in medicine : official journal of the American College of Medical Genetics · 2013
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  5. Reducing patient re-identification risk for laboratory results within research datasets.Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA · 2013
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  6. Anonymization of longitudinal electronic medical records.IEEE transactions on information technology in biomedicine : a publication of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society · 2012
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4 authors.

Acar TamersoyDepartment of Biomedical Informatics, School of Medicine Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee.
Grigorios Loukides
Joshua C Denny
Bradley Malin

Funding

Vanderbilt Genome-Electronic Records ProjectU01HG004603 · NHGRI · VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY · PI RODEN, DAN M · 2007 to 2011
$7.3M
Technologies to Enable Privacy in Biomedical DatabanksR01LM009989 · NLM · VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER · PI MALIN, BRADLEY A. · 2009 to 2014
$1.6M
NHGRI NIH HHS U01 HG004603NLM NIH HHS R01 LM009989
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Patient-specific data from electronic medical records (EMRs) is increasingly shared in a de-identified form to support research. However, EMRs are susceptible to noise, error, and variation, which can limit their utility for reuse. One way to enhance the utility of EMRs is to record the number of times diagnosis codes are assigned to a patient when this data is shared. This is, however, challenging because releasing such data may be leveraged to compromise patients' identity. In this paper, we present an approach that, to the best of our knowledge, is the first that can prevent re-identification through repeated diagnosis codes. Our method transforms records to preserve privacy while retaining much of their utility. Experiments conducted using 2676 patients from the EMR system of the Vanderbilt University Medical Center verify that our method is able to retain an average of 95.4% of the diagnosis codes in a common data sharing scenario.

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Electronic Health RecordsPrivacyClinical CodingConfidentialityHumans

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PMID21347085
PMCPMC3041421

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