Versions Compared

Key

  • This line was added.
  • This line was removed.
  • Formatting was changed.

...

Scrubber helps investigators ensure patient privacy when using physician notes for clinical research. Scrubber removes HIPAA defined Protected Health Identifiers by matching human expert and and machine defined rules for text processing. This software can work with note text either unformatted or contained within XML files or SQL databases. Launched in 2006, the use of Scrubber has been approved by numerous hospital IRBs and quality has been validated by physician review. 

Update OCT 16, 2013

New Scrubber paper with Apache cTAKES

Info

...

Improved de-identification of physician notes through integrative modeling of both identifying and non-identifying medical

...

text”, McMurry* AJ, Fitch* B, Savova G, Kohane IS, Reis BY.BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making

Update JUNE 18, 2013

Scrubber pipeline is moving to Apache cTAKES! .
For recent progress, see this presentation to the I2b2 National Center for Biomedical Computing:

...