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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Journal of Biomedicine and Biotechnology Volume 2012, Article ID 521267, 9 pages doi:10.1155/2012/521267 Research Article A Privacy-Preserved Analytical Method for eHealth Database with Minimized Information Loss Ya-Ling Chen,1 Bo-Chao Cheng,2 Hsueh-Lin Chen,1 Chia-I Lin,1 Guo-Tan Liao,2 Bo-Yu Hou,2 and Shih-Chun Hsu2 1 Service Systems Technology Center, Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI), Hsinchu 31040, Taiwan 2 Department of Communications Engineering, National Chung Cheng University, Chiayi 62145, Taiwan Correspondence should be addressed to Guo-Tan Liao, loboyoh@ Received 17 May 2012; Revised 18 July 2012; Accepted 19 July 2012 Academic Editor: Tai Hoon Kim Copyright © 2012 Ya-Ling Chen et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Digitizing medical information is an emerging trend that employs information and communication technology (ICT) to manage health records, diagnostic reports, and other medical data more effectively, in order to improve the overall quality of medical services. However, medical information is highly confidential and involves private information, even legitimate access to data raises privacy concerns. Medical records provide health information on an as-needed basis for diagnosis and treatment, and the information is also important for medical research and other health management applications. Traditional privacy risk management systems have focused on reducing reidentification risk, and they do not consider information loss. In addition, such systems cannot identify and isolate data that carries high ri