Design and implementation of a privacy preserving electronic health record linkage tool in Chicago

2015141 citationsJournal Articlebronze Open Access

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Abel Kho · Northwestern University

John Cashy · Northwestern University

Kathryn Jackson · Northwestern University

Adam R. Pah · Northwestern University

Satyender Goel · Northwestern University

Jörn Boehnke · University of Chicago

John Eric Humphries ·

Abstract

Software that standardizes the assignment of a unique seeded hash identifier merged through an agreed upon third-party honest broker can enable large-scale secure linkage of EHR data for epidemiologic and public health research. The software algorithm can improve future epidemiologic research by providing more comprehensive data given that patients may make use of multiple healthcare systems.

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Data Quality and Management Electronic Health Records Systems Chronic Disease Management Strategies

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Published in: Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association

Volume 22, Issue 5, pp. 1072-1080

DOI: 10.1093/jamia/ocv038

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