This position paper investigates the problem of automated text anonymisation, which is a
prerequisite for secure sharing of documents containing sensitive information about …

Objective: To perform a review of recent research in clinical data reuse or secondary use,
and envision future advances in this field. Methods: The review is based on a large literature …

Background Wearable technology has shown the potential of improving healthcare
efficiency and reducing healthcare cost. Different from pioneering studies on healthcare …

This paper leverages technological and methodological advances in natural language
processing to advance our understanding and approaches to leadership research by …

Objectives: We present a review of recent advances in clinical Natural Language Processing
(NLP), with a focus on semantic analysis and key subtasks that support such analysis …

The combination of two frontier technologies, health informatics and cloud computing, is
known as Health Informatics as a Service (HIaaS). Considering the importance of privacy …

In order to use medical text for research purposes, it is necessary to de-identify the text for
legal and privacy reasons. We report on a pattern matching method to automatically de …

Background Automated machine-learning systems are able to de-identify electronic medical
records, including free-text clinical notes. Use of such systems would greatly boost the …

Privacy is an important consideration when sharing clinical data, which often contain
sensitive information. Adequate protection to safeguard patient privacy and to increase …

Objective Sensitive health information possesses risks, such as stigma and discrimination,
when disclosed. Few studies have used a patient's own electronic health records (EHRs) to …