Ottawa Citizen reports on Khaled El Emam and his work providing de-identification solutions for the transfer of health data. Now, his software start-up Privacy Analytics has announced $3.5 million in seed financing. Investors include Bell Canada and the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research. While running a research lab associated with the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario, El Emam developed software, now called Parat, that scores the potential risk of re-identifying individuals in shared data while making the health data anonymous. According to the report, Privacy Analytics looks to hire three additional employees by the end of October.
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