title: Privacy enhancing techniques in E-health: an overview.
abstract: This overview highlights the relevance of Privacy Enhancing Techniques (PETs) in the context of e-Health. A number of validated privacy protecting techniques is briefly presented. The implementation of such PETs could provoke, for a number of applications, a shift in paradigm, namely from "Privacy through Security" to "Security through Privacy".
authors.affiliation: Department of Medical Informatics and Statistics, University Gent, Belgium.
authors.forename: Georges J E
authors.initials: GJ
authors.lastname: De Moor
authors.forename: Brecht
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Claerhoutb
mesh_terms: D001530:Belgium; D003195:Computer Communication Networks; D016494:Computer Security; D003219:Confidentiality; D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration*