CSAIL Researchers Pioneer Privacy of Medical Records

Google’s announcement last fall that it would be making health records available online touched off a flurry of concerns about patient privacy in the digital age. Now MIT researchers have developed a piece of software that will help to assuage doubts about how sensitive information is protected. A research group that included CSAIL principal investigators Peter Szolovits and Bill Long has developed an open-source software package “to allow researchers to accurately de-identify text in medical records in a HIPAA-compliant manner.” To find out more about the software, click here.