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Hiding information by cell suppression.

S A Vinterbo1, L Ohno-Machado, S Dreiseitl

  • 1Decision Systems Group, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. staal@dsg.harvard.edu

Proceedings. AMIA Symposium
|February 5, 2002
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Protecting patient confidentiality in research data is crucial. This study introduces k-ambiguity using cell suppression to prevent data linking with public records, enhancing data anonymization.

Area of Science:

  • Data privacy
  • Health informatics
  • Database security

Background:

  • Joining relational data for research risks patient confidentiality when linked with public data.
  • Ambiguity in datasets complicates the creation of essential primary keys for data table joins.
  • Existing methods may not sufficiently anonymize data for secure research dissemination.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To define and address data ambiguity to enhance patient confidentiality in research datasets.
  • To introduce a method for making data tables k-ambiguous through cell suppression.
  • To evaluate the effectiveness of proposed heuristics for data anonymization.

Main Methods:

  • Defined indiscernible values and rows based on exact matches or special values.
  • Introduced the concept of k-ambiguous tables where each row is indiscernible from at least k other rows.

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  • Developed and applied two cell suppression heuristics to achieve k-ambiguity in data tables.

    • Main Results:

    • Demonstrated that cell suppression can transform data tables into a k-ambiguous state.
    • Provided example data to illustrate the application and effectiveness of the heuristics.
    • Showcased a quantifiable approach to data anonymization for research purposes.

    Conclusions:

    • The proposed k-ambiguity framework and cell suppression heuristics offer a viable method for protecting patient confidentiality.
    • This approach aids in preventing the re-identification of individuals by hindering data linkage with external datasets.
    • Further research can explore the scalability and broader applicability of these anonymization techniques.