Evaluation of Re-identification Risk using Anonymization and Differential Privacy in Healthcare

Abstract

In the present scenario, due to regulations of data privacy, sharing of data with other organization for research or any medical purpose becomes a big hindrance for different healthcare organizations. To preserve the privacy of patients seems like a crucial challenge for Healthcare Centre. Numerous techniques are used to preserve the privacy such as perturbation, anonymization, cryptography, etc. Anonymization is well known practical solution of this problem. A number of anonymization methods have been proposed by researchers. In this paper, an improved approach is proposed which is based on k-anonymity and differential privacy approaches. The purpose of proposed approach is to prevent the dataset from re-identification risk more effectively from linking attacks using generalization and suppression techniques.