Subgroup meeting DIMACS Working Group on Data De-Identification, Combinatorial Optimization, Graph Theory, and the Stat/OR Interface.
Wednesday, December 10, 2003
Session I: Scope and Purpose of Privacy/Confidentiality of Health Data
7:45 - 8:30 Breakfast and Registration
Moderator: Joe Fred Gonzalez, Jr., ORM, NCHS, CDC
8:30 - 8:40 Welcome and Introductory Remarks
Fred S. Roberts, Director of DIMACS
8:40 - 9:20 Overview of Statistical Disclosure Limitation
Lawrence H. Cox, Associate Director, ORM, NCHS, CDC
9:20 - 9:30 Discussion
Session II: Government Regulations for the Release of Health Data and Implications for Research
9:30 - 9:40 "Context Setting" of Session II
Harry Guess, UNC
9:40 - 10:10 Legal and Regulatory Framework in the United States
and the European Union
Oliver Johnson, Merck and Co., Inc.
10:10 - 10:20 Discussion
10:20 - 10:40 Break
10:40 - 11:10 The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)
and its Implications on Epidemiological Research
Using Large Databases
K. Arnold Chan, Harvard University
11:10 - 11:20 Discussion
11:20 - 11:50 Health Care Databases under HIPAA: Statistical Approaches
to De-identification of Protected Health Information
Judith Beach, Quintiles Transnational
11:50 - 12:00 Discussion
12:00 - 1:15 Lunch
1:15 - 1:45 Protecting the Privacy of Healthcare Data While Preserving the Utility
of Geographic Location Information for Epidemiologic Research
Daniel Barth-Jones, Center for Healthcare Effectiveness Research and
Department of Medicine, Wayne State University, School of Medicine
1:45 - 1:55 Discussion
1:55 - 2:25 Privacy Technologies and Challenges in their Deployment
Tomas Sander, HP Labs
2:25 - 2:35 Discussion
2:35 - 2:55 Break
2:55 - 3:55 Software Demonstration of the use of Hippocratic database
technology in supporting a health care provider.
The demo scenario mimics the requirements placed by HIPAA
Tyrone Grandison, IBM
3:55 - 4:05 Discussion
4:05 - 4:35 Cryptographic Techniques for Confidentiality of Aggregate
Statistics on Health Data
Giovanni DiCrescenzo, Telecordia
4:35 - 4:45 Discussion
4:45 - 5:15 Open discussion of future plans and goals for the working group
5:30 Van back to hotel
7:00 - 9:00 Reception and dinner at Four Points Hotel
Thursday, December 11, 2003
9:00 - 10:00 Tutorial on Data Mining
David Madigan, Rutgers University
10:00 - 10:10 Discussion
10:10 - 10:40 Break
10:40 - 11:10 Using Data Mining Techniques to Harvest Information
from Clinical Trials
Richard D. De Veaux, Williams College, Williamstown, MA.
11:10 - 11:20 Discussion
11:20 - 11:50 Experimental Results on Privacy-Preserving Statistics Computation
Rebecca Wright, Stevens Institute of Technology
11:50 - 12:00 Discussion
12:00 - 1:30 Lunch
1:30 - 2:00 Semantic Web Services for Privacy/Confidentiality of Health Care Data
Nabil Adam, Rutgers University
2:00 - 2:10 Discussion
2:10 - 2:40 Privacy/Confidentiality Issues in Collecting Agricultural Data
Gary Smith, University of Pennsylvania
2:40 - 2:50 Discussion
2:50 - 3:20 Break
3:20 - 3:50 Open discussion of future plans and goals for the working group
5:00 Van back to hotel
Friday, December 12, 2003
8:30 - 9:00 Private Analysis of Data Sets
Benny Pinkas, HP Labs, NJ
9:00 - 9:10 Discussion
9:10 - 9:40 Overview of Masking Schemes for Microdata
Jay J. Kim, ORM, NCHS, CDC
9:40 - 9:50 Discussion
9:50 - 10:10 Break
10:10 - 10:40 Statistical Disclosure Limitation in Tabular Data and
Related Mathematical and Computational Problems
Lawrence H. Cox, ORM, NCHS, CDC
10:40 - 10:50 Discussion
10:50 - 11:20 Open discussion of future plans and goals for the working group
11:20 - 12:30 Lunch
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