Brownstein John S, Cassa Christopher A, Kohane Isaac S, Mandl Kenneth D
Children's Hospital Informatics Program, Children's Hospital Boston.
AMIA Annu Symp Proc. 2005;2005:905.
Widespread availability geographic information systems (GIS) software has facilitated the use health mapping in both academia and government. Maps that display patients as points are often exchanged in public forums (journals, meetings, web). However,even these low resolution maps may reveal confidential patient location information. In this report, we describe a method to test whether privacy is being breached. We reverse geocode from maps with cases and describe the accuracy with which patient addresses can be extracted.
地理信息系统（GIS）软件的广泛应用推动了健康地图在学术界和政府部门的使用。将患者显示为点的地图经常在公共论坛（期刊、会议、网络）上交流。然而，即使是这些低分辨率地图也可能泄露患者的保密位置信息。在本报告中，我们描述了一种测试隐私是否被侵犯的方法。我们从有病例的地图进行反向地理编码，并描述提取患者地址的准确性。
