TY - CHAP AU - Asmaa Hatem Rashid AU - Norizan Binti Mohd Yasin ED - Shaul Mordechai ED - Ranjit Sahu Y1 - 2012-03-09 PY - 2012 T1 - Anonymization Approach for Protect Privacy of Medical Data and Knowledge Management N2 - Information technology has been revolutionizing the everyday life of the common man, while medical science has been making rapid strides in understanding disease mechanisms, developing diagnostic techniques and effecting successful treatment regimen, even for those cases which would have been classified as a poor prognosis a decade earlier. The confluence of information technology and biomedicine has brought into its ambit additional dimensions of computerized databases for patient conditions, revolutionizing the way health care and patient information is recorded, processed, interpreted and utilized for improving the quality of life. This book consists of seven chapters dealing with the three primary issues of medical information acquisition from a patient's and health care professional's perspective, translational approaches from a researcher's point of view, and finally the application potential as required by the clinicians/physician. The book covers modern issues in Information Technology, Bioinformatics Methods and Clinical Applications. The chapters describe the basic process of acquisition of information in a health system, recent technological developments in biomedicine and the realistic evaluation of medical informatics. BT - Medical Informatics SP - Ch. 2 UR - https://doi.org/10.5772/37190 DO - 10.5772/37190 SN - PB - IntechOpen CY - Rijeka Y2 - 2024-03-29 ER -