De-identification Methods for Open Health Data: The Case of the Heritage Health Prize Claims Dataset

Khaled El Emam   ^{1, 2} , PhD ;   Luk Arbuckle   ¹ , MSc ;   Gunes Koru   ³ , PhD ;   Benjamin Eze   ⁴ , MSc ;   Lisa Gaudette   ⁴ , MSc ;   Emilio Neri   ¹ , BEng ;   Sean Rose   ⁴ , MSc ;   Jeremy Howard   ⁵ ;   Jonathan Gluck   ⁶

¹ Electronic Health Information Laboratory, CHEO Research Institute, Inc., Ottawa, ON, Canada

² Department of Paediatrics, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada

³ Department of Information Systems, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, United States

⁴ Privacy Analytics, Inc., Ottawa, ON, Canada

⁵ Kaggle, Melbourne, Australia

⁶ Heritage Provider Network, Northridge, CA, United States