Privacy Protection and Secondary Use of Health Data: Strategies and Methods

Biomed Res Int. 2021 Oct 7;2021:6967166. doi: 10.1155/2021/6967166. eCollection 2021.ABSTRACTHealth big data has already been the most important big data for its serious privacy disclosure concerns and huge potential value of secondary use. Measurements must be taken to balance and compromise both the two serious challenges. One holistic solution or strategy is regarded as the preferred direction, by which the risk of reidentification from records should be kept as low as possible and data be shared with the principle of minimum necessary. In this article, we present a comprehensive review about privacy protection of health data from four aspects: health data, related regulations, three strategies for data sharing, and three types of methods with progressive levels. Finally, we summarize this review and identify future research directions.PMID:34660798 | PMC:PMC8516535 | DOI:10.1155/2021/6967166

Source: Biomed Res - October 18, 2021 Category: Research Authors: Dingyi Xiang Wei Cai Source Type: research