Privacy-Preserving Biomedical Data Sharing

电子健康记录(EHR)系统的采用加快了健康数据的收集和共享。EHR数据库通常与生物信息库集成并共享，以促进全基因组关联研究(GWAs)。虽然生物医学数据的这种整合和共享有许多社会效益(例如，个性化医疗)，但它也引起了对个人隐私的担忧。最近一项关于隐私攻击的调查展示了侵犯生物医学数据隐私的各种技术，这些技术质疑目前实践中的保护机制的有效性。

The adoption of Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems has accelerated the collection and sharing of health data. EHR databases are often integrated with biorepositories and shared to facilitate genome-wide association studies (GWAS). While such integration and sharing of biomedical data have many social benefits (e.g., personalized medicine), it also raises concerns about individual privacy. A recent survey on privacy attacks demonstrates various techniques for breaching biomedical data privacy, and these techniques question the efficacy of the protection mechanisms that are currently in practice.