Security News > 2022 > March > Deploying pseudonymization techniques to protect health data

A report of the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity explores how pseudonymization techniques can help increase the protection of health data.

This is especially true since providing health services today implies an extended exchange of medical information and of health data among different healthcare service providers.

How medical data help deliver better health services.

The increasing processing of digitised medical data has also led to the associated risks of cyberattacks and of data breaches.

Pseudonymization consists in de-associating a data subject's identity from the personal data being processed for that data subject.

Although not essentially new, the process is explicitly referenced by GDPR as a technique to use to promote data protection by design and to secure the processing of personal data.

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https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2022/03/31/pseudonymization-health-data/