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De-Identification Blog

Methods, Tools, and Best Practices for Automated Data De-identification.

`ai_mask()` is a Databricks SQL function, in Public Preview and HIPAA compliant, that masks entity types named in a SQL array literal. Run against an expert-annotated clinical corpus with the...

Clinical de-identification benchmarks in 2026 put John Snow Labs Healthcare NLP at 0.96 PHI F1 on expert-annotated clinical notes, against 0.91 for Claude Opus 4.8, 0.89 for GPT-5.5, 0.86 for...

DICOM de-identification is workflow-specific because PHI can appear in metadata tags, free-text metadata fields, burned-in image pixels, and encapsulated PDF content. A production pipeline may need to inspect tags, apply...

Clinical de-identification requires removing the 18 HIPAA Safe Harbor identifier categories, the GDPR Article 9 special categories, and the contextual identifiers that make a patient re-identifiable in a longitudinal record....

Every day, healthcare organizations face an impossible balancing act. Clinical teams need AI tools to extract insights from unstructured medical records, validate de-identification results, and accelerate annotation workflows. But every...
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