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. 2012 Jul 27;12:109. doi: 10.1186/1471-2288-12-109

Table 4.

“Out-of-the-box” individual PHI recall results for partial and fully-contained matches using the VHA evaluation corpus

RULE-BASED SYSTEMS
PHI type
#Inst.
PARTIAL MATCHES
FULLY-CONTAINED MATCHES
 
 
HMS Scrubber
MeDS
MIT deid
HMS Scrubber
MeDS
MIT deid
Patient Name
206
0.83
0.99
0.98
0.57
0.69
0.69
Relative Name
30
0.76
0.95
1
0.57
0.67
0.77
Healthcare Provider Name
492
0.74
0.96
0.94
0.43
0.47
0.38
Other Person Name
20
0.66
0.81
0.74
0.30
0.25
0.35
Street City
137
0.90
0.96
0.81
0.70
0.78
0.78
State Country
161
0.45
0.49
0.85
0.43
0.45
0.84
Deployment
43
0.34
0.49
0.27
0.07
0.02
0.05
ZIP code
4
1
1
1
1
1
1
Healthcare Unit Name
1453
0.45
0.51
0.12
0.24
0.23
0.03
Other Org Name
86
0.33
0.50
0.27
0.03
0.20
0.03
Date
2547
0.74
0.87
0.80
0.34
0.27
0.46
Age > 89
4
0
0
1
0
0
1
Phone Number
90
0.73
0.79
0.80
0.42
0.5
0.48
Electronic Address
4
0
0.86
0.75
0
0
0.75
SSN
16
1
1
1
1
1
1
Other ID Number
123
0.66
0.82
0.41
0.43
0.61
0.27
MACHINE LEARNING-BASED SYSTEMS
PHI type
#Inst.
PARTIAL MATCHES
FULLY-CONTAINED MATCHES
 
 
MIST
HIDE
MIST
HIDE
Patient Name
206
0.51
0.54
0.42
0.50
Relative Name
30
0.13
0.13
0.13
0.13
Healthcare Provider Name
492
0.53
0.59
0.44
0.53
Other Person Name
20
0
0.20
0
0.15
Street City
137
0.26
0.29
0.26
0.27
State Country
161
0.14
0.22
0.14
0.21
Deployment
43
0.07
0.05
0.07
0.02
ZIP code
4
0
0.75
0
0.75
Healthcare Unit Name
1453
0.09
0.09
0.06
0.05
Other Org Name
86
0.09
0.07
0.06
0.06
Date
2547
0.72
0.73
0.39
0.38
Age > 89
4
0
0
0
0
Phone Number
90
0.34
0.61
0.24
0.51
Electronic Address
4
0
0
0
0
SSN
16
0.56
0.87
0.56
0.87
Other ID Number 123 0.32 0.69 0.20 0.63