Peer Reviewed Articles
- Patel AA GD, Seligson D, Hattab EM, Balis UJ, Ulbright TM, Kohane IS, Berman JJ, Gilbertson JR, Dry S, Schirripa O, Yu H, Becich MJ, Parwani AV, and the Shared Pathology Informatics Network. Availability and Quality of Paraffin Blocks Identified by the Shared Pathology Informatics Network (SPIN): A Multi-institutional Study. BMC Cancer. 2006.
- Holzbach AM CH, Porter AJ, Kohane IS, Berkowicz D. . A query engine for distributed medical databases. Medinfo. 2004:1519.
- McDonald CJ, Dexter P, Schadow G, Chueh HC, Abernathy G, Hook J, et al. SPIN query tools for de-identified research on a humongous database.
AMIA Annu Symp Proc. 2005:515-9.
- Beckwith BA, Mahaadevan R, Balis UJ, Kuo F. Development and evaluation of an open source software tool for deidentification of pathology reports.
BMC Med Inform Decis Mak. 2006;6:12.
- Thomas SM, Mamlin B, Schadow G, McDonald C. A
successful technique for removing names in pathology reports using an augmented search and replace method.
Proc AMIA Symp. 2002:777-81.
News Coverage
FOSS closes patient privacy gap for researchers
http://www.linux.com/archive/feed/53333
Harvard hopes database will speed cancer cures
http://www.boston.com/yourlife/health/diseases/articles/2005/11/21/harvard_hopes_database_will_speed_cancer_cures/