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| Bradley A MalinSummaryAffiliation: Vanderbilt University Country: USA Publications
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Identifiability in biobanks: models, measures, and mitigation strategiesBradley Malin
Department of Biomedical Informatics, School of Medicine, Vanderbilt University, 2525 West End Avenue, Suite 600, Nashville, TN 37203, USA
Hum Genet 130:383-92. 2011..Finally, we discuss the policy implications of these findings, particularly as they pertain to biobank security and access policies. We situate our review in the context of real data sharing scenarios and biorepositories...
Learning relational policies from electronic health record access logsBradley Malin
Department of Biomedical Informatics, School of Medicine, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37203, USA
J Biomed Inform 44:333-42. 2011..Additionally, we demonstrate that there is significant turnover in the interactions between users in the HCO and that policies learned at the department-level afford greater stability over time...
Never too old for anonymity: a statistical standard for demographic data sharing via the HIPAA Privacy RuleBradley Malin
Department of Biomedical Informatics, School of Medicine, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee 37203, USA
J Am Med Inform Assoc 18:3-10. 2011..The authors propose an intuitive approach to de-identifying patient demographics in accordance with the Statistical Standard...
Technical and policy approaches to balancing patient privacy and data sharing in clinical and translational researchBradley Malin
Department of Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37203, USA
J Investig Med 58:11-8. 2010..The widespread use of such open databases is contingent on the protection of patient privacy...
Secure construction of k-unlinkable patient records from distributed providersBradley Malin
Department of Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37203, USA
Artif Intell Med 48:29-41. 2010..In this paper, we introduce an algorithmic approach to formally thwart trail re-identification in a secure setting...
A computational model to protect patient data from location-based re-identificationBradley Malin
Department of Biomedical Informatics, Eskind Biomedical Library, Fourth Floor, 2209 Garland Avenue, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37232 8340, USA
Artif Intell Med 40:223-39. 2007..In this paper, we develop and evaluate computational methods that health care organizations can apply to disclose patient-specific DNA records that are impregnable to trail re-identification...
A longitudinal social network analysis of the editorial boards of medical informatics and bioinformatics journalsBradley Malin
Eskind Biomedical Library, Department of Biomedical Informatics, School of Medicine, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37232 8340, USA
J Am Med Inform Assoc 14:340-8. 2007..Models such as co-citation and co-author analysis measure the relationships between researchers; but they do not capture how environments that support knowledge transfer across communities are organized...
Anonymization of electronic medical records for validating genome-wide association studiesGrigorios Loukides
Department of Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37203, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 107:7898-903. 2010....
The disclosure of diagnosis codes can breach research participants' privacyGrigorios Loukides
Department of Biomedical Informatics, School of Medicine, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee 37203, USA
J Am Med Inform Assoc 17:322-7. 2010....
Confidentiality preserving audits of electronic medical record accessBradley Malin
Department of Biomedical Informatics, School of Medicine, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37232, United States
Stud Health Technol Inform 129:320-4. 2007..We motivate the protocol in a real world medical center and then generalize the protocol for implementation in existing healthcare environments...
Evaluating re-identification risks with respect to the HIPAA privacy ruleKathleen Benitez
Department of Biomedical Informatics, School of Medicine, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee 37203, USA
J Am Med Inform Assoc 17:169-77. 2010....
How (not) to protect genomic data privacy in a distributed network: using trail re-identification to evaluate and design anonymity protection systemsBradley Malin
Data Privacy Laboratory, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213 3890, USA
J Biomed Inform 37:179-92. 2004..We propose that such techniques can be applied as system tests of privacy protection capabilities...
A cryptographic approach to securely share and query genomic sequencesMurat Kantarcioglu
Department of Computer Science, University of Texas, Dallas, TX 75080 3021 USA
IEEE Trans Inf Technol Biomed 12:606-17. 2008..The framework can be implemented on top of existing information and network technologies in biomedical environments...
Research Grants
- Automated Detection of Anomalous Accesses to Electronic Health RecordsBradley A Malin; Fiscal Year: 2010..We believe that auditing tools for EHR systems, such as those developed through this research, are crucial to the continued adoption of health information technologies without sacrificing patients'privacy rights. ..
- Technologies to Enable Privacy in Biomedical DatabanksBradley Malin; Fiscal Year: 2009..We believe that by managing biomedical records through formal privacy protection mechanisms, databanks based on our model will be able to support research with greater throughput than the current status quo. ..
- Automated Detection of Anomalous Accesses to Electronic Health RecordsBradley Malin; Fiscal Year: 2009..We believe that auditing tools for EHR systems, such as those developed through this research, are crucial to the continued adoption of health information technologies without sacrificing patients' privacy rights. ..
- Technologies to Enable Privacy in Biomedical DatabanksBradley A Malin; Fiscal Year: 2010..We believe that by managing biomedical records through formal privacy protection mechanisms, databanks based on our model will be able to support research with greater throughput than the current status quo. ..
- Technologies to Enable Privacy in Biomedical DatabanksBradley A Malin; Fiscal Year: 2010..We believe that by managing biomedical records through formal privacy protection mechanisms, databanks based on our model will be able to support research with greater throughput than the current status quo. ..
