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This chapter provides a summary of the main topics and methods that have been covered in the book, and it draws inferences about various important aspects of medical data privacy. In particular, it discusses issues and techniques related to preserving privacy in: (1) data sharing, (2) distributed and dynamic settings, and (3) emerging applications. Furthermore, it provides an overview of key legal frameworks for the protection of Personal Health Information (PHI) and of techniques required to comply with these frameworks, such as text de-identification and data governance. Moreover, the chapter discusses some promising directions in the field of medical data privacy.
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Gkoulalas-Divanis, A., Loukides, G. (2015). Epilogue. In: Gkoulalas-Divanis, A., Loukides, G. (eds) Medical Data Privacy Handbook. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-23633-9_29
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