Concerns about identifiability arose prominently in Scenario 4 where the linkage was to be done by researchers, even though participants were assured that researchers would be required to de-identify data as soon as practicable.
The Information-centric network (ICN) is a novel architecture identifying data as a first class citizen, and caching as a prominent low-level feature.
We will refer to identifying data as master data.
Relatively speaking, the best suitable option for the mentioned use case (retrieving a pseudonym for a patient) is the "Patient Demographics Query" transaction, which accepts identifying data as search criteria.
Lord Laming's recent inquiry into the Baby P case identified data management as a root cause of the tragedy.
The identified data were expressed as the mean ± SEM.
"In recent years, the Internet has become an appealing place for criminals to obtain identifying data, such as passwords or even banking information," it says.
However, it does not collect personal identifying data such as credit-card information, telephone numbers, and purchasing history unless a user signs up for a feature like Google Checkout.
Prior to analysis, all identifying data such as name, date of birth, and medical record number were removed.
CORE does not hold individual patient identifying data and as such informed consent has been waived and specific ethical approval was not required.
Patient identifying data were not collected as part of this project.
