Using personal health information in medical research

Managing personal health information in distributed research network environments

BACKGROUND Studying rare outcomes, new interventions and diverse populations often requires collaborations across multiple health research partners. However, transferring healthcare research data from one institution to another can increase the risk of data privacy and security breaches. METHODS A working group of multi-site research programmers evaluated the need for tools to support data se...

Confidentiality of personal health information used for research.

http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/333/7560/196 Updated information and services can be found at: These include: Data supplement http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/333/7560/196/DC1 "Tips for managing confidentiality" References http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/333/7560/196#otherarticles 3 online articles that cite this article can be accessed at: http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/333/7560/196#BIBL This ...

Building the national health information infrastructure for personal health, health care services, public health, and research

BACKGROUND Improving health in our nation requires strengthening four major domains of the health care system: personal health management, health care delivery, public health, and health-related research. Many avoidable shortcomings in the health sector that result in poor quality are due to inaccessible data, information, and knowledge. A national health information infrastructure (NHII) offer...

Using Geographic Information Systems for Health Research

Identifying Personal Health Information Using Support Vector Machines

We explore the use of Support Vector Machines to recognize personal health information in medical discharge summaries. In addition to the basic token level features, we use entities recognized by an information extraction system designed for newswire text, plus a set of rules that incorporate entityspecific knowledge. The results on the unseen test dataset show that the SVM model can be easily ...