Privacy-protecting, reliable response data discovery using COVID-19 patient observations.

Journal: Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
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Abstract

OBJECTIVE: To utilize, in an individual and institutional privacy-preserving manner, electronic health record (EHR) data from 202 hospitals by analyzing answers to COVID-19-related questions and posting these answers online.

Authors

  • Jihoon Kim
    Department of Pathology, University of Ulsan College of Medicine and Asan Medical Center, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
  • Larissa Neumann
    Institute for Medical Information Processing, Biometry, and Epidemiology, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Munich, Germany.
  • Paulina Paul
    Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA.
  • Michele E Day
    University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA.
  • Michael Aratow
    San Mateo Medical Center, San Mateo, California, USA.
  • Douglas S Bell
    Biomedical Informatics Program, UCLA Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI), Los Angeles, California, USA.
  • Jason N Doctor
    USC Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics, Price School of Policy, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA.
  • Ludwig C Hinske
    Institute for Medical Information Processing, Biometry, and Epidemiology, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Munich, Germany.
  • Xiaoqian Jiang
    School of Biomedical Informatics, University of Texas Health, Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, USA.
  • Katherine K Kim
    Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing, University of California Davis Medical Center, Sacramento, California, USA.
  • Michael E Matheny
    Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN.
  • Daniella Meeker
    Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine of USC, Los Angeles, California, USA.
  • Mark J Pletcher
    Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA.
  • Lisa M Schilling
    Data Science and Patient Value Program, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, Colorado, USA.
  • Spencer SooHoo
    Division of Informatics, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, USA.
  • Hua Xu
    Department of Urology, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China.
  • Kai Zheng
    University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA.
  • Lucila Ohno-Machado
    University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA.