You say in your blog that you sat on the "Heritage Health Prize" advisory board. Have you looked at these data sets? https://www.i2b2.org/NLP/DataSets/Main.php

You say in your blog that you sat on the "Heritage Health Prize" advisory board. Have you looked at these data sets? https://www.i2b2.org/NLP/DataSets/Main.php https://www.i2b2.org/NLP/DataSets/Main.php De-identification of medical charts is a bottleneck in clinical research. It's impractical to ask for thousands consent forms, however, smaller sample sizes are inconclusive, so much, that most of medicine is driven by inconclusive research findings. Moreover, full anonymization does not allow to follow patient records over time. This will kill any big patient outcome study, at least financially. What are your thoughts?