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A Postive-Sum Paradigm in Action in the Health Sector |
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Health information custodians frequently rely on de-identification when using or disclosing health information – a measure that can protect individual privacy, but often at the expense of data quality (zero-sum paradigm). Dr. Khaled El Emam, a senior investigator at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute (CHEO), has resolved this dilemma through the development of a tool that de-identifies personal health information in a manner that simultaneously minimizes both the risk of re-identification and the degree of distortion to the original database (positive-sum paradigm). March 2010 |
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PHIPA, de-identification, re-identification, personal health information, positive-sum |
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Ann Cavoukian, Ph.D.
Information & Privacy Commissioner,
Ontario,
Canada
Khaled El Emam, Ph.D.
Canada Research Chair in Electronic Health Information, CHEO Research Institute and University of Ottawa |
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Mar 30, 2010 |
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