Privacy

A quick hands-on exercise to understand ARX’s features through its GUI, using the bundled adult dataset (US Census data). Setup Download the ARX repository to access the example data: git clone https://github.com/arx-deidentifier/arx.git The example dataset is at arx/data/adult.csv — US Census data from the UCI ML Repository. Creating a Project and Importing Data In ARX GUI: File → New Project File → Import data → CSV file Select adult.csv ...

A survey of existing tools and approaches for de-identifying OMOP data. Why De-identification Matters De-identification is the process of removing or transforming data elements that could identify individuals. In healthcare, this typically means addressing the 18 identifiers specified under HIPAA’s Safe Harbor provision, or demonstrating through Expert Determination that re-identification risk is “very small.” The practical payoff: properly de-identified data is no longer considered PHI under HIPAA. That means: ...