

We 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
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