International Journal for Population Data Science • Vol 3 • No 4
Designing and Implementing a Privacy Preserving Record Linkage Protocol
September 2018 • Tom Gee, Brendan Behan, Shannon Lefaivre, Mahmoud Azimaee, Moyez Dharsee, Khaled El Emam, Julie Yang, Anthony L. Vaccarino, Kenneth Evans, J. Charles…
IntroductionThe Ontario Brain Institute has developed Brain-CODE, an informatics platform, to support the acquisition, storage, management and analysis of multi-modal data. The standardized research data within Brain-CODE spans several brain disorders, allowing for integrative analyses, while also providing the opportunity to leverage existing clinical administrative data holdings through external linkages.
 Objectives and ApproachWithin Ontario, the majority of individuals who access the healthcare system ha…