{"id":230409,"date":"2026-04-02T10:46:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T14:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/02\/new-software-safeguards-research-participants-privacy-washu-medicine\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T10:50:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T14:50:11","slug":"new-software-safeguards-research-participants-privacy-washu-medicine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/02\/new-software-safeguards-research-participants-privacy-washu-medicine\/","title":{"rendered":"New software safeguards research participants\u2019 privacy \u2013 WashU Medicine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicine.washu.edu\/news\/new-software-safeguards-research-participants-privacy\/\">New software safeguards research participants\u2019 privacy \u2013 WashU Medicine<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicine.washu.edu\/news\/new-software-safeguards-research-participants-privacy\/\">https:\/\/medicine.washu.edu\/news\/new-software-safeguards-research-participants-privacy\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-04-02 10:46:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"medicine.washu.edu\">medicine.washu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\tVisit the News Hub<\/p>\n<p class=\"subhead\">De-ID allows easy removal of identifiable details from datasets, enabling safe sharing<\/p>\n<p>WashU Medicine and University of Michigan researchers developed a software, De-ID, that flags sensitive information in data collected through focus groups, surveys and interviews. It highlights and suggests generic replacements using a color-coding scheme: red for information that has a high risk of identifying someone; yellow for medium-risk information; and blue for low-risk information. Accepted suggestions are highlighted in green, and ignored suggestions in gray. <\/p>\n<p>&#8221; data-medium-file=&#8221;https:\/\/medicine.washu.edu\/app\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Dubois-De-ID-300&#215;200.jpg&#8221; data-large-file=&#8221;https:\/\/medicine.washu.edu\/app\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Dubois-De-ID-700&#215;467.jpg&#8221;\/<span class=\"image-credit\">Sara Moser\/WashU Medicine<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"featured-image-caption\">WashU Medicine and University of Michigan researchers developed a software, De-ID, that flags sensitive information in data collected through focus groups, surveys and interviews. It highlights and suggests generic replacements using a color-coding scheme: red for information that has a high risk of identifying someone; yellow for medium-risk information; and blue for low-risk information. Accepted suggestions are highlighted in green, and ignored suggestions in gray. <\/p>\n<p>Which details in a de-identified scientific record are enough to still identify a person? If, for example, the record includes that a person is a CEO, the abundance of CEOs in the world would make identification nearly impossible. If the person is a CEO living in Missouri, the list becomes notably shorter but likely extensive enough to safeguard identity. But the name of a CEO living in St. Louis and working at a particular company is easy to figure out.<\/p>\n<p>Some scientific research studies collect Alber data \u2014 information provided through focus groups, surveys and interviews \u2014 that harbor potentially telling information, including cities lived in, work histories, personal anecdotes and other details&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicine.washu.edu\/news\/new-software-safeguards-research-participants-privacy\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New software safeguards research participants\u2019 privacy \u2013 WashU Medicine https:\/\/medicine.washu.edu\/news\/new-software-safeguards-research-participants-privacy\/ Publish Date: 2026-04-02 10:46:00 Source&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":230410,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/medicine.washu.edu\/app\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Dubois-De-ID.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-230409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-privacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230409"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230409"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":230411,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230409\/revisions\/230411"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}