andredekker / BigMachine

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Tokens available for each MRN #3

Closed andredekker closed 8 years ago

andredekker commented 8 years ago

As a data provider, I need to have tokens available for each MRN, so that I can share my data in a deidentified manner

The Medical Record Number is an identifier and thereby privacy sensitive. If I want to open up my data to others, such as researchers for secondary use, I need to have tokens (pseudonyms) available so that I can use these to replace the Medical Record Number. These tokens need to be globally unique so that I don't run the risk of using the same token to identify different patients.