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Title: Utility of Privacy Preservation for Health Data Publishing

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Publication Year: 2013

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Abstract: In the medical field, we are amassing phenomenalamounts of data. This data is imperative in discovering patterns and trends to help improve healthcare. Yet the researchers cannot rejoice as the data cannot be easily shared, because health data custodians have the understandable ethical and legal responsibility to maintain the privacy of individuals. Many techniques of anonymization have been proposed to provide means of publishing data for research purposes without jeopardizing privacy. However, as flaws are discovered in these techniques, other more stringent methods are proposed. The strictness of the techniques with classification to evaluate the utility loss, and propose a framework to enhance the utility of anonymized data.

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Authors: Zaane, Osmar R.; Wu, Lengdong; He, Hua

Publisher: University of Alberta

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Health, Methodology and Data Collection

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