DeID-GPT: Zero-shot Medical Text De-Identification by GPT-4

Understand

The digitization of healthcare has facilitated the sharing and re-using of medical data but has also raised concerns about confidentiality and privacy.

• HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) mandates removing re-identifying information before the dissemination of medical records.
• Thus, effective and efficient solutions for de-identifying medical data, especially those in free-text forms, are highly needed.
• While various computer-assisted de-identification methods, including both rule-based and learning-based, have been developed and used in prior practice, such solutions still lack generalizability or need to be fine-tuned according to different scenarios, significantly imposing restrictions in wider use.