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J Am Med Inform Assoc 16:37-39 doi:10.1197/jamia.M2862
  • The Practice of Informatics

Repurposing the Clinical Record: Can an Existing Natural Language Processing System De-identify Clinical Notes?

Table 1

Number of Various Types of PHI Misclassified as Non-PHI by MedLEE and Retained in Output

PHI Type Instances of PHI in the Notes Instances of PHI Allowed into Output Proportion of PHI that Leaked Through
Age >89 7 5 71%
Clinician 157 6 3.8%
Date 300 0 0.0%
Hospital 100 7 7.0%
Location 45 3 6.7%
Patient 126 4 3.2%
Telephone 33 1 3.0%
Identifiers 41 0 0.0%
Total 809 26 3.2%
  • PHI = protected health informaion.

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