Dr. Khaled El Emam
Chief Technology Officer
Privacy Analytics Inc.

Sharing Sensitive Data

Dr. Khaled El Emam is an Associate Professor at the University of Ottawa, Faculty of Medicine and the School of Information Technology and Engineering, a senior investigator at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute, and a Canada Research Chair in Electronic Health Information at the University of Ottawa. He is also founder and CTO of Privacy Analytics Inc., a software company which develops de-identification tools. His main area of research is developing techniques for health data anonymization. Previously Khaled was a Senior Research Officer at the National Research Council of Canada, and prior to that he was head of the Quantitative Methods Group at the Fraunhofer Institute in Kaiserslautern, Germany. In 2003 and 2004, he was ranked as the top systems and software engineering scholar worldwide by the Journal of Systems and Software based on his research on measurement and quality evaluation and improvement, and ranked second in 2002 and 2005. He holds a Ph.D. from the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, King's College, at the University of London (UK). His lab’s web site is: http://www.ehealthinformation.ca/.

Privacy Analytics Inc. is an Ottawa based company that is commercializing the de-identification technology developed by the health informatics lab at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario. This lab, led by Dr. Khaled El Emam, is a Canadian leader in measuring re-identification risks, as well as in developing methodologies and de-identification algorithms to manage these risks. Its products are in use by hospitals and registries to manage the disclosure of health information to internal and external parties. Privacy Analytics has been backed by the Ontario Centers of Excellence and Bell Canada.