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de-identified is the key word here. That's how they attained the data in a HIPAA compliant way. Yes there are problems with combining that data with other data
by amsully 9y ago
de-identified is the key word here. That's how they attained the data in a HIPAA compliant way.
Yes there are problems with combining that data with other datasets to re-identify. Google would be in a rather good place to do that.
- Sir_Substance 9y agoEven without googles abilities, it turns out that, to the surprise of no one, the medical field doesn't the level of information security expertise we might all wish they did: http://www.zdnet.com/article/re-identification-possible-with-australian-de-identified-medicare-and-pbs-open-data/ http://www.zdnet.com/article/re-identification-possible-with...