title: Weaving technology and policy together to maintain confidentiality.
abstract: Author demonstrates that removing all explicit identifiers from medical data does not guarantee medical record confidentiality. She examines three new software systems that do help maintain anonymity, but warns that systems' limitations demand complementary policies.
authors.affiliation: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Laboratory for Computer Science, Cambridge, USA.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Sweeney
mesh_terms: D016494:Computer Security; D003219:Confidentiality / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D003628:Database Management Systems; D030881:Disclosure; D006801:Humans; D033181:Information Dissemination; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval / Q000379:methods*; D008498:Medical Record Linkage; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D012106:Research; D014481:United States