Editor's Note: Dr. Khaled El Emam is the CEO of Privacy Analytics, a world-renowned expert in statistical de-identification and re-identification risk. He is one of only a handful of known individual experts in North America qualified to certify the anonymization of Protected Health Information under the HIPAA privacy law. Between October 2009 and August 2015, 1,286 HIPAA-covered entities and business associates have reported data breaches involving more than 500 records, which have
Read More