Linking patients' records across organizations while maintaining anonymity.

Boonchai Kijsanayotin; Stuart M Speedie; Donald P. Connelly

Linking patients' records across organizations while maintaining anonymity.

Boonchai Kijsanayotin, Stuart M Speedie, Donald P. Connelly

Pharmaceutical Care and Health Systems

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In an health information exchange (HIE) project, linking patients' health records across organizations while maintaining appropriate patients anonymity is essential. Anonymous identifiers created from various combinations of personal identifiers using one way encryption function were evaluated for linkage quality between two synthesized databases. Preliminary results show that such anonymous identifiers (IDs) based on date of birth, zip code and last name or first name can link records with high specificity and sensitivity.

Original language	English (US)
Number of pages	1
Journal	AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings / AMIA Symposium. AMIA Symposium
State	Published - 2007

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