Volume 28, Issue 1 - Careers in medical writing

Regulatory Public Disclosure

Author: Sam Hamilton

Abstract

References

1. RPD SIG members’ page Available from: https://www.emwa.org/members/ special-interest-groups/regulatorypublic- disclosure-sig/
2. “Anonymizing Health Data: Case Studies and Methods to Get You Started” by Khaled El Emam and Luk Arbuckle, ISBN number 978- 1-449-36307-9, is available as an eBook. Précis: “Updated as of August 2014, this practical book will demonstrate proven methods for anonymizing health data to help your organization share meaningful datasets, without exposing patient identity. Leading experts Khaled El Emam and Luk Arbuckle walk you through a risk-based methodology, using case studies from their efforts to de-identify hundreds of datasets.”
3. “Guide to the De-identification of Personal Health Information” by Khaled El Emam, ISBN number 978-1-4665-7906-4, is available as an eBook. Précis: “Offering compelling practical and legal reasons why de-identification should be one of the main approaches to protecting patients’ privacy, the Guide to the De- Identification of Personal Health Information outlines a proven, riskbased methodology for the deidentification of sensitive health information. It situates and contextualizes this risk-based methodology and provides a general overview of its steps.”