crate-anon 0.19.4

CRATE: clinical records anonymisation and text extraction

Purpose

• Anonymises relational databases.

• Performs some specific preprocessing tasks; e.g.

  • preprocesses some specific databases (e.g. Servelec RiO EMR);

  • drafts a “data dictionary” for anonymisation, with special knowledge of some databases (e.g. TPP SystmOne);

  • fetches some word lists, e.g. forenames/surnames/eponyms.

• Provides a natural language processing (NLP) pipeline.

• Web app for

  • querying the anonymised database

  • managing a consent-to-contact process

Documentation

See https://crateanon.readthedocs.io

Sources

• Python package: https://pypi.org/project/crate-anon/

• Source code: https://github.com/RudolfCardinal/crate

Licence

• Copyright (C) 2015, University of Cambridge, Department of Psychiatry. Created by Rudolf Cardinal ([e-mail]).

• Licensed under the GNU GPL v3+: see LICENSE file.

• Some third-party libraries have slightly different licences:

  • aspects of CamAnonGatePipeline.java are based on demonstration GATE code, copyright (C); University of Sheffield, and licensed under the GNU LGPL; see https://gate.ac.uk/.