Weekly Edition
Return to the Press page
| |||||||||||||
FOSS closes patient privacy gap for researchers (NewsForge)
NewsForge looks
at HMS Scrubber. " Two new open source software projects are
ready to wipe patient histories clean of personal information so
researchers can learn from medical cases without endangering privacy. One
of the GPLed software programs, HMS Scrubber version 1.0, was recently able
to remove more than 98 percent of identifiers -- such as name, address, and
Social Security number -- from 1,254 pathology reports processed from three
hospitals. Developed by a team from the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical
Center in Boston and other American institutions, the software holds
promise beyond pathology in nearly all medical records, which are integral
to research, but are full of privacy pitfalls, says Bruce Beckwith, a Beth
Israel doctor and developer of the new software."
(Log in to post comments)
HMS Scrubber? Posted Apr 14, 2006 16:19 UTC (Fri) by proski (subscriber, #104) [Link] Shouldn't those brave Bostonians have called it USS Scourer?
|
|||||||||||||