Pseudonymization of PHI Items in German Clinical Reports
View Publication On PubMed
Export 
BiBTeXWe describe the adaptation of a non-clinical pseudonymization system, originally developed for a German email corpus, for clinical use. This tool replaces previously identified Protected Health Information (PHI) items as carriers of privacy-sensitive information (original names for people, organizations, places, etc.) with semantic type-conformant, yet, fictitious surrogates. We evaluate the generated substitutes for grammatical correctness, semantic and medical plausibility and find particularly low numbers of error instances (less than 1%) on all of these dimensions.
PubMed ID: 34042748
DOI: 10.3233/SHTI210163
Projects: SMITH - Smart Medical Information Technology for Healthcare
Publication type: Journal article
Journal: Studies in Health Technology and Informatics
Book Title: Volume 281: Public Health and Informatics
Publisher: IOS Press Ebooks
Human Diseases: No Human Disease specified
Citation: Lohr C, Eder E, Hahn U. Pseudonymization of PHI Items in German Clinical Reports. Stud Health Technol Inform. 2021 May 27;281:273-277. doi: 10.3233/SHTI210163. PMID: 34042748.
Date Published: 27th May 2021
URL: https://ebooks.iospress.nl/doi/10.3233/SHTI210163
Registered Mode: manually
Export PNG
Download
Submitter
Views: 716
Created: 26th Jan 2023 at 15:36
TagsThis item has not yet been tagged.
AttributionsNone
Related items
Medical data routinely generated in everyday clinical practice is processed and made available to medical research in a standardized form. Patients benefit from reliable research results, more precise diagnoses and better treatments. In order to link data from care and research, the participating university hospitals in Aachen, Bonn, Essen, Halle, Hamburg, Jena and Leipzig have established sustainable Data Integration Centers. The network partners Ruhr University Bochum, the Düsseldorf University ...
Programme: MII - Medical Informatics Initiative
Public web page: https://www.smith.care/
Start date: 1st Jan 2018
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9889-162X- since 2023: Research Assistant at IMISE of Leipzig University
- 2016 - 2022: Research Assistant at JULIE Lab of Friedrich Schiller University Jena
- 2015 - 2016: Research Assistant at Chemnitz University of Technology, Chair Media Informatics and Chair Practical Computer Science
- 2007 - 2015: Student Assistant at Klinikum Chemnitz (Klinik für Allgemein- und Viszeralchirurgie)
- 2012 - 2015: Studies of Computer Science at Chemnitz University of Technology (Master of Science)
- 2007 - 2012: ...
The medical informatics initiative was created to close the gap between research and healthcare. All of Germany’s university hospitals have joined forces with research institutions, businesses, health insurers, and patient advocacy groups to create a framework that harnesses research findings to the direct benefit of patients. The German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) is investing around 160 million euros in the programme through 2021. The digitisation of medicine is creating ...
Projects: Methodical Use Case PheP, SMITH - Smart Medical Information Technology for Healthcare, POLAR - Polypharmacy, Drug Interactions, Risks
