We identify and describe nine key, short-term, challenges to help healthcare organizations,
health information technology developers, researchers, policymakers, and funders focus …

Objective The aim of this study was to determine whether a secure, privacy-preserving
record linkage (PPRL) methodology can be implemented in a scalable manner for use in a …

The enormous public health burden of heart failure continues to grow. Between 2009 and
2016, the number of patients living with heart failure (HF) in the United States grew by an …

Objective To implement an open-source tool that performs deterministic privacy-preserving
record linkage (RL) in a real-world setting within a large research network. Materials and …

Objective This article describes the implementation of a privacy-preserving record linkage
(PPRL) solution across PCORnet®, the National Patient-Centered Clinical Research …

Background Quality patient care requires comprehensive health care data from a broad set
of sources. However, missing data in medical records and matching field selection are 2 real …

Objectives Accurate record linkage (RL) enables consolidation and de-duplication of data
from disparate datasets, resulting in more comprehensive and complete patient data …

Background: The United States, unlike other high-income countries, currently has no
national unique patient identifier to facilitate health information exchange. Because of …

Accurate record linkage depends on the availability and quality of features such as first
name and last name. Privacy preserving record linkage methods using tokenization is …

The authors would like to acknowledge the American Immunization Registry Association
(AIRA) and the AIRA Publication Project Workgroup for assistance with scheduling and …