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Enhance deidentified resources with information about removed (deidentified) paths #16

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philwinn opened this issue May 9, 2022 · 1 comment

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@philwinn
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philwinn commented May 9, 2022

For a user of deidentified FHIR resources, it might be important to know which paths were removed (deidentified) by the deidentification process. Unless this information is not encoded as part of a deidentified resource, it is impossible for a user to know whether a particular data point is simply missing in the original resource or was removed by the deidentification process.

This enhancement could be implemented as either

  • an Extension that lists all deidentified paths or
  • Tags (searchable!) that encode the deidentified paths
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tobiasgirardet commented May 13, 2022

One drawback I can think about is that this information might expose an additional "attack surface" for re-identification of a patient. Therefore, this should be an optional feature, that is disabled by default.

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