Pre-Grant Publication Number: 20080077604
Filing Date: September 25, 2006
Inventors: Aavishkar Bharara
Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
Current U.S. Classification: 707, 707/101000
View Prior Art for Claim 00001
A method of de identifying an object data, the method comprising:
obtaining the object data, the object data being a data concerning a medical object;
identifying at least one confidential identification data in the object data, the confidential identification data being a confidential data for identifying the medical object;
filtering the confidential identification data from the object data; and
replacing the confidential identification data with at least one standard character.
Title Medical Privacy - National Standards to Protect the Privacy of Personal Health Information
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The Federal law requiring the privacy of patients to be protected.
Title Proceedings, Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association
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Journal article describing a system to anonymize or "scrub" medical records. It does not claim to contribute anonymization, only to provide an improved and automated system for doing so.
Title The MIRC DICOM Anonymizer
Description
Description of an example DICOM Anonymizer product, from distributor's web site. This version of the web page is from the page's own update history as of July 9, 2006.
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DICOMWorks is a free DICOM tool that is widely used. One of its features is anonymization.
