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