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There are good arguments to be made about your point, but I don't think this is necessarily one of them. As the article quotes, "The data is anonymous, but it a
by blennon 11y ago
There are good arguments to be made about your point, but I don't think this is necessarily one of them. As the article quotes, "The data is anonymous, but it allows us to see where those folks have gotten care."
What Amino has done can easily be done with anonymized data. They only need to know patient age, patient gender, physician, location of physician, what the physician billed for (I assume the ICD-9 codes). I doubt there's enough information there to identify individuals.
- panarky 11y agoIt's surprising how much can be inferred about specific people from anonymized data provided for research purposes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AOL_search_data_leak https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AOL_search_data_leak
- blennon 11y agoIt is surprising and comments like this always pop-up in response to comments like mine. The question is how much information do you really need to identify individuals? I can't answer that since I haven't seen the data set they are actually working with. In terms of the information they report, I doubt you could identify anyone.