Privacy-preserving healthcare informatics: a review

Kah Meng Chong, L.E. Teoh, W.S. Ng
2021 ITM Web of Conferences  
Electronic Health Record (EHR) is the key to an efficient healthcare service delivery system. The publication of healthcare data is highly beneficial to healthcare industries and government institutions to support a variety of medical and census research. However, healthcare data contains sensitive information of patients and the publication of such data could lead to unintended privacy disclosures. In this paper, we present a comprehensive survey of the state-of-the-art privacy-enhancing
more » ... s that ensure a secure healthcare data sharing environment. We focus on the recently proposed schemes based on data anonymization and differential privacy approaches in the protection of healthcare data privacy. We highlight the strengths and limitations of the two approaches and discussed some promising future research directions in this area.
doi:10.1051/itmconf/20213604005 fatcat:b42puxfpfzayxbwls7wrlphbxy