A simple heuristic for blindfolded record linkage

• Published in: Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA Vol. 19; no. e1; pp. e157 - e161
• Main Authors: Weber, S. C., Lowe, H., Das, A., Ferris, T.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England BMJ Group 01.06.2012
• Series: FOCUS on clinical research informatics
• Subjects: Confidentiality; Electronic Health Records; Humans; Medical Record Linkage; Names; Research and Applications

To address the challenge of balancing privacy with the need to create cross-site research registry records on individual patients, while matching the data for a given patient as he or she moves between participating sites. To evaluate the strategy of generating anonymous identifiers based on real id...