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"Free Text" medical notes contain information which can be used to locate human biospecimens and even predict patient outcomes.
Because medical notes often contain Protected Health Information, it is necessary to "scrub" notes of sensitive information prior to sharing with a clinical investigator. Towards this goal, we have developed Open Source software that removes PHI from raw text, XML, or databases.
The software has been approved for use by numerous hospital IRBs, and has been manually reviewed by physician experts.
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