Keeping health data private

7/2/2014

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Technology Review (July 2) -- A new tool developed by computer scientists at the University of Illinois can figure out which parts of an individual's medical record may inadvertently reveal aspects of a patient’s medical history. The idea is that as data-sharing proposals advance, the patient would decide what parts of his or her record to keep private. A clinician would get advice from the technology on how to amend the record to ensure that this occurs.


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This story was published July 2, 2014.