Cryptographic methods enable analyses without privacy breaches

Khaled El Emam and his colleagues adapted a secure protocol they had previously developed for broad disease surveillance purposes to investigate the infection rates of drug-resistant bacteria among residents of long-term-care homes. Across Canada, there had been incidents of healthcare providers try...

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Published inNature medicine Vol. 20; no. 6; p. 563
Main Author Zeliadt, Nicholette
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published New York Nature Publishing Group US 01.06.2014
Nature Publishing Group
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Analysis
Biomedical and Life Sciences
Biomedical research
Biomedical Research - methods
Biomedical Research - standards
Biomedicine
Cancer Research
Clinical trials
Computing Methodologies
Confidentiality - trends
Cryptography
Data security
Humans
Infectious Diseases
Information management
Management
Medical research
Medicine, Experimental
Metabolic Diseases
Methods
Molecular Medicine
Neurosciences
news
Patients
Privacy
Researcher-Subject Relations
Trust
United States
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Summary:Khaled El Emam and his colleagues adapted a secure protocol they had previously developed for broad disease surveillance purposes to investigate the infection rates of drug-resistant bacteria among residents of long-term-care homes. Across Canada, there had been incidents of healthcare providers trying to hide this kind of data to protect their reputations and the privacy of their patients. Ultimately, spreading the use of cryptographic programs beyond the security field could be a hard sell, as some biomedical scientists might resist platforms they dont understand and cant easily deconstruct.
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ISSN:1078-8956
1546-170X
1546-170X
DOI:10.1038/nm0614-563