Automated de-identification of free-text medical records

Background: Text-based patient medical records are a vital resource in medical research. In order to preserve patient confidentiality, however, the U.S. Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) requires that protected health information (PHI) be removed from medical records before...

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Main Authors: Neamatullah, Ishna (Contributor), Douglass, Margaret M. (Contributor), Long, William J. (Contributor), Szolovits, Peter (Contributor), Moody, George B. (Contributor), Clifford, Gari D. (Contributor), Reisner, Andrew T. (Contributor), Lehman, Li-Wei (Author), Villarroel, Mauricio C. (Author), Mark, Roger G (Author)
Other Authors: Harvard University- (Contributor), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (Contributor), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (Contributor), Harvard- (Contributor), Lehman, Li-Wei H. (Contributor), Villarroel Montoya, Mauricio Christian (Contributor), Mark, Roger Greenwood (Contributor)
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Language:English
Published: BioMed Central Ltd, 2010-09-23T13:14:09Z.
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