title: Recognition and privacy preservation of paper-based health records.
abstract: While the digitization of medical data within electronic health records has been introduced in some areas, massive amounts of paper-based health records are still produced on a daily basis. This data has to be stored for decades due to legal reasons but is of no benefit for research organizations, as the unstructured medical data in paper-based health records cannot be efficiently used for clinical studies. This paper presents a system for the recognition and privacy preservation of personal data in paper-based health records with the aim to provide clinical studies with medical data gained from existing paper-based health records.
authors.affiliation: Vienna University of Technology, Austria. fenz@ifs.tuwien.ac.at
authors.forename: Stefan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Fenz
authors.forename: Johannes
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Heurix
authors.forename: Thomas
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Neubauer
mesh_terms: D001317:Austria; D003219:Confidentiality; D003628:Database Management Systems; D057286:Electronic Health Records; D005568:Forms and Records Control / Q000379:methods*; D055991:Health Records, Personal; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval / Q000379:methods*; D008498:Medical Record Linkage; D010209:Paper