Feature-Augmented Neural Networks for Patient Note De-identification

Understand

Patient notes contain a wealth of information of potentially great interest to medical investigators.

• However, to protect patients' privacy, Protected Health Information (PHI) must be removed from the patient notes before they can be legally released, a process known as patient note de-identification.
• The main objective for a de-identification system is to have the highest possible recall.
• Recently, the first neural-network-based de-identification system has been proposed, yielding state-of-the-art results.