New study looks at re-identification risks

Wednesday, October 14, 2009 - 00:28 in Health & Medicine

OTTAWA - A recent study led by Dr. Khaled El Emam, the Canada Research Chair in Electronic Health Information at the CHEO Research Institute, found that the information in hospital prescription records can quite easily re-identify patients.

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