Managing Privacy Risks when Sharing Health Data
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When:
April 3, 2018 @ 2:00 pm – 3:15 pm
2018-04-03T14:00:00-04:00
2018-04-03T15:15:00-04:00
Where:
Toronto
75 Laurier Ave E
Ottawa, ON K1N 6N5
Canada
75 Laurier Ave E
Ottawa, ON K1N 6N5
Canada
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There are many benefits to making health data
available for secondary purposes, such as academic
research and drug development. One legal basis for
doing so is to obtain patient consent, however, this
has a number of practical challenges. The main
alternative legal basis is to de-identify the data. This
presentation will describe risk-based de-identification
techniques that have been in use for more than a
decade globally to de-identify health data. The basic
principle is to balance the risk of identity disclosure
with data utility that would facilitate beneficial uses of
the data. Methodological as well as practical
considerations will be discussed.