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Automated de-identification of free-text medical records
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Background: Text-based patient medical records are a vital resource in medical research. In order to preserve patient confidentiality, however, the U.S. Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) requires that protected health information (PHI) be removed from medical records before they can be disseminated. Manual de-identification of large medical record databases is prohibitively expensive, time-consuming and prone to error, necessit...
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- BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making More from this journal
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- 8
- Article number:
- 32
- Publication date:
- 2008-07-24
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- 2008-07-24
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1472-6947
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