An Efficient Method for Deidentifying Protected Health Information in Chinese Electronic Health Records: Algorithm Development and Validation

Peng Wang   ^{1 *} , MEng ;   Yong Li   ^{2 *} , MEng ;   Liang Yang   ³ , MEng ;   Simin Li   ³ , MEng ;   Linfeng Li   ³ , PhD ;   Zehan Zhao   ⁴ , MEng ;   Shaopei Long   ² , BEng ;   Fei Wang   ⁵ , MEng ;   Hongqian Wang   ⁵ , MEng ;   Ying Li   ⁵ , MSc ;   Chengliang Wang   ¹ , PhD

¹ College of Computer Science, Chongqing University, Chongqing, China

² School of Computer Science, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, China

³ Yidu Cloud Technology Inc, Beijing, China

⁴ School of Software & Microelectronics, Peking University, Beijing, China

⁵ Medical Big Data Center of Southwest Hospital, Chongqing, China

*these authors contributed equally