Preserving Patient Privacy When Sharing Same-Disease Data

Xiaoping Liu, Xiao-Bai Li, Luvai Motiwalla, Wenjun Li, Hua Zheng, Patricia D. Franklin
2016 Journal of Data and Information Quality  
Medical and health data are often collected for studying a specific disease. For such same-disease microdata, a privacy disclosure occurs as long as an individual is known to be in the microdata. Individuals in same-disease microdata are thus subject to higher disclosure risk than those in microdata with different diseases. This important problem has been overlooked in data-privacy research and practice, and no prior study has addressed this problem. In this study, we analyze the Permission to
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doi:10.1145/2956554 pmid:27867450 pmcid:PMC5111902 dblp:journals/jdiq/LiuLMLZF16 fatcat:wffrbhhrpjczxawd6gwyt52yiu