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A Legal Evaluation of Pseudonymization Approaches

Authors:
Thomas Neubauer
Mathias Kolb

Keywords: security, privacy, pseudonymization, e-health

Abstract:
Privacy is one of the fundamental issues in health care today and a fundamental right of every individual. Several laws were enacted that demand the protection of patients’ privacy. However, approaches for protecting privacy often do not comply with legal requirements or basic security requirements. This paper highlights research directions currently pursued for privacy protection in e-health and evaluates common pseudonymization approaches against legal criteria taken from Directive 95/46/EC and HIPAA. Thereby, it supports decision makers in deciding on privacy systems and researchers in identifying the gaps of current approaches for privacy protection as a basis for further research.

Pages: 190 to 202

Copyright: Copyright (c) to authors, 2009. Used with permission.

Publication date: December 1, 2009

Published in: journal

ISSN: 1942-2636