"De-identification of health data can be an important tool for protecting privacy while still preserving the utility of health data for analytic purposes. But the ability of de-identification to meet both of these goals depends in large part on the deployment of effective health data de-identification methodologies. There are distressingly few resources (and only a handful of experts) available to health data researchers and health data stewards to help them understand -- and effectively implement -- health data de-identification methodologies."  MORE >>