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

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Abstract

To design and implement a tool that creates a secure, privacy preserving linkage of electronic health record (EHR) data across multiple sites in a large metropolitan area in the United States (Chicago, IL), for use in clinical research.

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Journal ID (iso-abbrev): J Am Med Inform Assoc

Title: Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA

Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)

ISSN (Electronic): 1527-974X

ISSN (Print): 1067-5027

Publication date (Electronic): Sep 2015

Volume: 22

Issue: 5

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[1 ] Department of Medicine, and Center for Health Information Partnerships, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA akho@nm.org.

[2 ] Department of Medicine, and Center for Health Information Partnerships, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA Department of Veterans Affairs, Pittsburgh PA.

[3 ] Department of Medicine, and Center for Health Information Partnerships, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA.

[4 ] Department of Economics, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.

[5 ] Society of Fellows Department of Economics, Business School, Program For Evolutionary Dynamics, and Center for Research on Computation and Society, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.

[6 ] Department of Medicine, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL, USA.

[7 ] Department of Biomedical Informatics, School of Medicine, and Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, School of Engineering, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA.

[8 ] Center for Healthcare Studies and Department of Ophthalmology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA.

[9 ] Department of Veterans Affairs, Pittsburgh PA.

[10 ] Alliance of Chicago Community Health Services, Chicago, IL, USA.

[11 ] Formerly of Chicago Department of Public Health, currently at Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital, Chicago, IL, USA.

[12 ] University of Illinois Hospital and Health Sciences System, Chicago, IL, USA.

Article

Publisher Item ID: ocv038

DOI: 10.1093/jamia/ocv038

PMC ID: 5009931

PubMed ID: 26104741

SO-VID: e5197669-d240-4756-8200-360f75aaac6c

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Keywords: health information exchange,privacy protection,record linkage

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Keywords: health information exchange, privacy protection, record linkage

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