期刊名称：International Journal of Innovative Research in Computer and Communication Engineering
印刷版ISSN：2320-9798
电子版ISSN：2320-9801
出版年度：2013
卷号：1
期号：4
出版社：S&S Publications
摘要：Various types of data, including demographics, clinical, and genomic information, are increasinglycollected and stored in Electronic Medical Record (EMR) systems. These information are essential for the discovery ofnew drugs and therapies. But the sharing of this medical data leads to the disclosure of patient’s privacy. The existingpolicy governing the medical records privacy is HIPAA. This act was passed by the US congress and includes policiesabout security, use and transfer of records. The Institutional Ethics committee of a medical centre is responsible forprotecting the patient information during research, which gets a signed consent before the disclosure of patient medicalinformation and Audit trial systems are used in present scenarios for data protection. The disadvantage is that theidentity can be disclosed by violating the laws. Through this project, a framework is proposed which uses theanonymization technique for protecting patient privacy. Two protocols of anonymization namely suppression based andgeneralization based anonymization are used. Anonymization refers to converting the information into a non humanreadable form. The anonymized personal information and the non- anonymized treatment details are forwarded forclinical research purpose. The proposed system thus focuses on providing an innovative tool to hospital sector formaintaining privacy and confidentiality of patient details.
