de-identification
Stripping personal markers
De-identification is the process of removing or obscuring personal information from data so individuals cannot be identified.
Medical records, research datasets, and user analytics undergo de-identification to protect privacy while preserving the data's usefulness: The hospital de-identified patient records before sharing them with researchers.
Names, addresses, and ID numbers are typically stripped or replaced with codes.
Removing identifying information
- redactionObscuring sensitive text
- maskingConcealing by covering
- pseudonymizationSubstituting identifiers with artificial ones
- data protectionSecuring sensitive information
confidentiality · obfuscation · scrubbing · sanitization · HIPAA · GDPR · consent · personal data
- PHIIdentifiable health data
- health dataInformation about bodily condition
- clinical trialsControlled health research experiments
- researchSystematic fact-finding effort
EHR · diagnoses · lab results · case studies · epidemiology · biomedical · informed consent · pathology reports
Finite problem-solving procedure
- automatedOperating without human control
- NLPMachine language comprehension
- machine learningAlgorithms that improve from data
- pattern matchingDetecting consistent structures
text processing · software · tools · API · batch processing · accuracy · recall · precision
Hiding those who testified
- criminal recordsOfficial documentation of convictions
- court documentsWritten materials for litigation
- testimonySworn statement as evidence
- redactedOfficially removed from view
classified · intelligence · informant · surveillance · evidence · case files · juvenile records · sealed records
anonymization
Removing identifying information
- redactionObscuring sensitive text
- maskingConcealing by covering
- pseudonymizationSubstituting identifiers with artificial ones
data protection · confidentiality · obfuscation · scrubbing · sanitization · HIPAA · GDPR · consent · personal data · identifiers
patient records
- PHIIdentifiable health data
- health dataInformation about bodily condition
- clinical trialsControlled health research experiments
research · EHR · diagnoses · lab results · case studies · epidemiology · biomedical · informed consent · pathology reports · radiology
algorithm
Finite problem-solving procedure
- automatedOperating without human control
- NLPMachine language comprehension
- machine learningAlgorithms that improve from data
pattern matching · text processing · software · tools · API · batch processing · accuracy · recall · precision · validation
witness protection
Hiding those who testified
- criminal recordsOfficial documentation of convictions
- court documentsWritten materials for litigation
- testimonySworn statement as evidence
redacted · classified · intelligence · informant · surveillance · evidence · case files · juvenile records · sealed records · protective order
- data privacydata privacy, GDPR, personal data, data protection, consent
- HIPAAHIPAA, PHI, business associate, compliance officer, OCR
de-identificationidentification
Establishing who someone is
re-identification · naming · personal identification · identity verification · attribution
identified, identification, unidentified, identifying, identifiable, identifier, misidentified, reidentified, reidentification