Title
Balancing the need for big data and patient data privacy--an IT infrastructure for a decentralized emergency care research database.
Abstract
Emergency rooms of hospitals provide care to a lot of patients and have great impact on their outcome, so researching the quality of care seems important. Research using registries has yielded impressive results in other areas of medicine. However centralized data-storage has its pitfalls, especially regarding data privacy. We therefore drafted an IT infrastructure that uses decentralized storage to ensure data privacy, but still enables data transfer between participating hospitals. It implements an independent information broker to ensure anonymity of patients. Still it provides a way for researchers to request data and hospitals to contribute data on an opt-in basis. Although not an entirely new approach, the emphasis on data privacy throughout the design is a novel aspect providing a better balance between the need for big sample sizes and patient privacy.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.3233/978-1-61499-432-9-750
Studies in Health Technology and Informatics
Keywords
Field
DocType
Emergency medicine,routine care research,registry,database,data privacy
Data mining,Knowledge management,Information technology management,Information privacy,Big data,Medicine,Database
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
205
0926-9630
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
8
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Janko Ahlbrandt100.34
Dominik Brammen222.86
Raphael W. Majeed33011.42
Rolf Lefering400.68
Sebastian C. Semler521.76
Sylvia Thun646.92
Felix Walcher701.01
R Röhrig83812.49