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10 June 2008
Fida Dankar, a post-doctoral fellow at the Electronic Health Information Laboratory will be presenting a modified k-Anonymity procedure in a talk entitled "Protecting Privacy Using k-Anonymity" on June 18, 2008 at 4:00 p.m. at the University of Ottawa, room CBY-A707.
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19 February 2008
The fourth annual Electronic Health Information and Privacy conference will be held on 3rd November 2008 at the Hampton Inn Conference Center, Ottawa. This year's main themes will be the privacy of geographic/location information, and genetic data privacy.
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14 December 2007
The full set of presentations from the Electronic Health Information and Privacy Conference held in Ottawa on 3 December is now available. The conference covered a wide spectrum of policy, technical, and ethical issues related to the collection, use, and disclosure of clinical and genetic information, including EHR governance issues, medical ID theft, and public attitudes and behaviors towards privacy.
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5 November 2007
The full set of presentations from the Consumer Health Informatics Summit held in Ottawa on 30th October is now available. The summit considered how Information Technology available today can empower patients to manage their own health as well as barriers and facilitators to its adoption in Canada.
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4 October 2007
A paper just published by our lab presents the results of a study on the extent to which personal health information is leaking through second hand computer disk drives. Approximately 10% of used drives have sensitive health information on the drive owners and others (eg, patients and clients).
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7 May 2007
A paper just published by our lab presents the results from a survey of the quality assurance practices of biomedical open source software projects. The findings cover the implementation of peer reviews and testing.
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4 May 2007
The final report for the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada on re-identification risks in Canada and how to minimize these risks has now been released. This documents a series of studies conducted by our lab over the last 12 months as part of that project.
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21 April 2007
A new case study illustrating how to use the PrivacyAnalytics v2 tool to perform basic anonymization of identifying variables on a large database has just been released.
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13 April 2007
The newest version of the data anonymization tool, PrivacyAnalytics, has just been released. The new version includes improved randomization and automation functions, as well as extending data handling capabilities. Requires a password to install.
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16 March 2007
The third annual Electronic Health Information and Privacy Conference has been announced. It will be held in Ottawa on 3rd December 2007 at the NAC.
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20 December 2006
The full report from the privacy guidelines workshop is now publicly available. This workshop gathered experts from across the country to discuss three contemporary issues: health research, re-identiication, and outsourcing.
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7 December 2006
The lab's privacy blog, which has been around for more than a year, is now integrated with the EHIL web site. The blog provides regular updates on health care privacy stories and events, as well as discussions related to our privacy work.
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21 November 2006
A paper reporting on the lab's work on re-identification risk in Canada has just been published in JMIR.
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21 November 2006
The complete set of presentations from the Second Annual Electronic Health Information and Privacy Conference held in Ottawa on 13th November are now available.
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10 June 2008
Fida Dankar, a post-doctoral fellow at the Electronic Health Information Laboratory will be presenting a modified k-Anonymity procedure in a talk entitled "Protecting Privacy Using k-Anonymity" on June 18, 2008 at 4:00 p.m. at the University of Ottawa, room CBY-A707.
19 February 2008
The fourth annual Electronic Health Information and Privacy conference will be held on 3rd November 2008 at the Hampton Inn Conference Center, Ottawa. This year's main themes will be the privacy of geographic/location information, and genetic data privacy.
14 December 2007
The full set of presentations from the Electronic Health Information and Privacy Conference held in Ottawa on 3 December is now available. The conference covered a wide spectrum of policy, technical, and ethical issues related to the collection, use, and disclosure of clinical and genetic information, including EHR governance issues, medical ID theft, and public attitudes and behaviors towards privacy.
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