The Department of Health (DoH) has published a new health-sector strategy that calls for better data sharing and for all electronic health records (EHRs) to be available online by 2015, Out-Law.com reports, but the document admits that anonymisation of data may not prevent reidentification. "Although publically available datasets will always be anonymised," the document states, "there can be a risk of 'jigsaw' identification."
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