Global Utilities

Research Publications - Abstract

Department of Computer Science & Computer Engineering

Rahayu, J.W., Landberg, A.H., Grain, H., and Pardede, E.
Publication Year: 2009
Paper Title: Incorporating Privacy Support into Clinical Data Warehouses
Journal Name: Electronic Journal of Health Informatics
Volume: 4/1, 2009
Pages: 1 - 13
Abstract: This paper presents an analysis and implementation of a clinical data warehouse. It focuses on the nature of health data and points out implications that arise when warehousing this data. Especially concerns in regards to data privacy and authentication, data completeness and quality are addressed. First, we explore privacy preserving methods and propose a query-time validation scheme that protects against privacy disclosure caused by combining data attributes. To enforce the access control, we propose a novel concept of composite security levels. Second, we introduce techniques and methods to overcome these issues, and suggest strategies for practical implementation, Finally, we introduce the system prototype that was developed during this project, and explain and illustrate, how these techniques and methods were applied in practice with emergency data.
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