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Anonymizing Health Data

Written by Luk Arbuckle | Jun 27, 2025 7:05:06 PM

This practical book demonstrates proven methods for anonymizing health data to help your organization share meaningful datasets, without exposing patient identity. While clinical data is valuable for research and other analytics, anonymizing it without compromising data quality is tricky. This book will show you how you can maximize data value, while minimizing the possibility of identifying data subjects.

 

What You’ll Learn

 

  • Different methods for working with cross-sectional and longitudinal datasets
  • How to reduce the size and complexity of datasets without losing key information
  • Methods to anonymize unstructured, free-form text data