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The introduction and rapid growth of the Internet of Medical Things (IoMT), a subset of the Internet of Things (IoT) in the medical and healthcare systems, has brought numerous changes and challenges to current medical and healthcare systems. Healthcare organizations share data about patients with research organizations for various medical discoveries. Releasing such information is a tedious task since it puts the privacy of patients at risk with the understanding that textual health documents about an individual contains specific sensitive terms that need to be sanitized before such document can be released. Recent approaches improved the utility of protected output by substituting sensitive terms with appropriate “generalizations” that are retrieved from several medical and general-purpose knowledge bases (KBs). However, these approaches perform unnecessary sanitization by anonymizing the negated …