Research Issue in Data Anonymization in Electronic Health Service: A Survey

Abstract

At today time, the rapid change of technology is changing the day-to-day activity of human being. Healthcare data and practice also made use of these technologies; they change its way to handle the data. The electronic health Service (EHS) is increasingly collecting large amount of sensitive data of the patient that is used by the patient, doctors and others data analysts. When we are using EHS we should concern to security and privacy of the medical data, because of medical data is too sensitive due to their personal nature. Especially privacy is critical for the sensitive data when we give for medical data analysis or medical research purpose, first we should do sanitization or anonymized of the data before releasing it. Data anonymization is the removing or hiding of personal identifier information like name, id, and SSN from the health datasets and to not to be identified by the recipient of the data. To anonymize the data we are using different models and techniques of anonymization. This paper is survey on data anonymization in Electronic Health Service (EHS).