PMID- 30815177
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20200107
LR  - 20200429
IS  - 1942-597X (Electronic)
IS  - 1559-4076 (Linking)
VI  - 2018
DP  - 2018
TI  - Re-Identification Risk in HIPAA De-Identified Datasets: The MVA Attack.
PG  - 1329-1337
AB  - We present a re-identification attack that uses indirect (non-HIPAA) identifiers 
      to target a vulnerable subset of records de-identified to the HIPAA Safe Harbor 
      standard, those involving motor vehicle accidents (MVAs). Documentation of an MVA 
      in a patient note creates a significant risk to patient privacy through the MVA 
      re-identification attack, with a relative risk of 537 compared to the general 
      population. Patients in a significant MVA resulting in either permanent injury, 
      hospitalization or death (for any victim) should have the accident location 
      information omitted due to the significant risk of re-identification of HIPAA 
      de-identified data. Clinicians should also consider omitting location information 
      for any MVA, as it significantly increases the risk of re-identification.
FAU - Janmey, Victor
AU  - Janmey V
AD  - Department of Biomedical Informatics, Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical 
      Sciences, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY.
FAU - Elkin, Peter L
AU  - Elkin PL
AD  - Department of Biomedical Informatics, Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical 
      Sciences, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY.
LA  - eng
GR  - T15 LM012495/LM/NLM NIH HHS/United States
GR  - UL1 TR001412/TR/NCATS NIH HHS/United States
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20181205
PL  - United States
TA  - AMIA Annu Symp Proc
JT  - AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium
JID - 101209213
SB  - IM
MH  - *Accidents, Traffic
MH  - Confidentiality
MH  - *Data Anonymization
MH  - *Datasets as Topic
MH  - Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
MH  - Humans
MH  - Male
MH  - Risk
MH  - United States
PMC - PMC6371259
EDAT- 2019/03/01 06:00
MHDA- 2020/01/08 06:00
PMCR- 2018/12/05
CRDT- 2019/03/01 06:00
PHST- 2019/03/01 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2019/03/01 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2020/01/08 06:00 [medline]
PHST- 2018/12/05 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - 2973875 [pii]
PST - epublish
SO  - AMIA Annu Symp Proc. 2018 Dec 5;2018:1329-1337. eCollection 2018.