Tokenization techniques for privacy-preserving healthcare data: tokenization nuts and bolts.

ABSTRACT: Tokenization is a crucial technology for ensuring the security and privacy of patient data in clinical research, pharmacovigilance, and drug safety monitoring. As healthcare increasingly integrates diverse data sources-ranging from clinical records to non-clinical data such as social determinants of health (SDOH)-it is essential to protect sensitive patient information while improving data quality and analysis (National Institutes of Health, 2006). This article emphasizes tokenization's critical role in safeguarding privacy, particularly in pharmacovigilance activities including safety monitoring, risk assessment, and post-market surveillance. Beyond security, tokenization enriches research datasets by enabling integration of external information, thereby enhancing the rigor and reliabilit

SUBMITTER: Cook CV 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12756134 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature