INDEX-BASED DEIDENTIFICATION

• Main Authors: Clark, John P, Morley, Jason B, Li, Zhe, Padgett, David W, Carlsen, Brian A, Pozas Trevino, Jorge F, LaMarche, Jeffrey D, Schroeder, Christian, Pennell, Mark E
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 04.04.2019
• Subjects: HEALTHCARE INFORMATICS, i.e. INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONTECHNOLOGY [ICT] SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR THE HANDLING ORPROCESSING OF MEDICAL OR HEALTHCARE DATA; INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY [ICT] SPECIALLY ADAPTEDFOR SPECIFIC APPLICATION FIELDS; PHYSICS

A term base can be used to index a raw term (e.g., a text string from an electronic health record) to generate a computational expression of the raw term. As part of doing so, portions of the raw term including personally identifying information can be removed and/or replaced with de-identified info...