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¹University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA. adrianb@mail.med.upenn.edu.

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Area of Science:

Medical Informatics
Natural Language Processing
Patient Privacy

Background:

Millions of public posts on medical message boards offer insights into patient experiences.
Protecting user privacy in these online communities is crucial for research.
Existing de-identification methods struggle with the unstructured nature of message board data.

Purpose of the Study:

To develop and evaluate an automated system for de-identifying authors of medical message board posts.
To address the unique challenges posed by patient-generated text in online health forums.

Main Methods:

Developed a novel system for automatic de-identification of message board posts.
The system is designed to handle typographical errors, diverse terminology, and personal disclosures.
Evaluated the system on two distinct medical message board corpora (breast cancer and arthritis).

Main Results:

The developed system significantly outperforms existing named entity recognition and de-identification tools.
Demonstrated superior performance compared to systems tuned for structured medical text.
Successfully de-identified authors in both breast cancer and arthritis discussion corpora.

Conclusions:

The proposed system offers an effective solution for de-identifying authors in medical message board data.
This advancement facilitates the ethical use of large-scale patient-generated data for medical research.
The system's ability to handle noisy, informal text improves patient privacy protection in online health communities.