Khaled El Emam

Gebundenes Buch

Guide to the De-Identification of Personal Health Information

Beschreibung

Offering compelling practical and legal reasons why de-identification should be one of the main approaches to protecting patients' privacy, this book outlines a proven, risk-based methodology for the de-identification of sensitive health information. The book contextualizes this risk-based methodology and provides a general overview of its steps. The author supplies a detailed case for why de-identification is important as well as best practices to help readers pinpoint when it is necessary to apply de-identification in the disclosure of personal health information.

Autor

Dr. El Emam holds the Canada Research Chair in Electronic Health Information at the University of Ottawa and is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Medicine at the university. In 2003 and 2004, he was ranked as the top systems and software engineering scholar worldwide by The Journal of Systems and Software based on his research on measurement and quality evaluation and improvement. He is a senior scientist at the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute and leads the multi-disciplinary Electronic Health Information Laboratory (EHIL) team. Dr. El Emam is one of only a handful of individuals worldwide known to be qualified to de-identify personal health information for secondary use under the HIPAA Privacy Rule Statistical Standard. Khaled is also a world-renowned expert in health information privacy and the head of the Electronic Health Information Laboratory www.ehealthinformation.ca which conducts cutting edge research in this area. He has been de-identifying data since 2004, and has a large following and speaks extensively on this topic. He has edited 2 books and written one already, as well as contributed chapters to a number of others.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Auerbach Publications
• Seitenzahl: 414
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Mai 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 784g
• ISBN-13: 9781466579064
• ISBN-10: 1466579064
• Artikelnr.: 36652734