期刊名称：International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications(IJACSA)
印刷版ISSN：2158-107X
电子版ISSN：2156-5570
出版年度：2017
卷号：8
期号：5
DOI：10.14569/IJACSA.2017.080545
出版社：Science and Information Society (SAI)
摘要：With the growing advancement of science and technology, research has become the vital step in every educational field. This research survey sheds light on the methods of de-identification and anonymisation for protecting the privacy of the patients, practitioners and nurses. Researchers require huge amounts of patient data for carrying out different analyses. Patient information must therefore be preserved while ensuring that the applied privacy policies do not render the data less valuable. De-identification and anonymisation techniques masks the patient identity through various methods such as suppression, randomisation, shuffling, creating pseudonyms, generalisation, adding noise, scrambling, masking, encoding and encryption, etc. The dataset having critical information is called protected health information (PHI) through which an individual can be identified. Thus, PHI must be preserved through an appropriate means to make data valuable and at the same time, protect the data from hackers. This paper presents the importance of securing PHIs in Pakistan by analysing the results of an awareness survey.
关键词：Anonymisation; De-Identification; Protected health information; Patient data
