title: Improving patients privacy with Pseudonymization.
abstract: e-Health requires the sharing of patient related data when and where necessary. Electronic health records promise to improve communication between health care providers, thus leading to better quality of patients' treatment and reduced costs. As highly sensitive patient information provides a promising goal (e.g., for attackers), there is an increasing social and political pressure to guarantee patients privacy. This paper presents the new system PIPE (Pseudonymization of Information for Privacy in e-Health), that differs from existing approaches in its ability to securely integrate primary and secondary usage of health data.
authors.affiliation: Secure Business Austria, Vienna, Austria.
authors.forename: Thomas
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Neubauer
authors.forename: Bernhard
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Riedl
mesh_terms: D000851:Anonyms and Pseudonyms; D001317:Austria; D003195:Computer Communication Networks; D016494:Computer Security; D006801:Humans; D008498:Medical Record Linkage; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized; D033283:Patient Access to Records; D010355:Patient Identification Systems; D018907:Privacy