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From: Improved de-identification of physician notes through integrative modeling of both public and private medical text

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Observations of physician notes with other types of medical text. 1) Nouns and Numbers that only occur in physician notes are probably PHI. 2) Words that occur frequently in medical publications are not likely to contain PHI. 3) Words and phrases that occur frequently in medical dictionaries are not likely to contain PHI. 4) Words shared in all three medical text sources are very unlikely to contain PHI.

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BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making

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