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Meddies PII: Open model for clinical text de-identification released

Researchers have introduced Meddies PII, an open-source model and dataset designed for de-identifying clinical text. The model aims to remove patient-specific information while preserving crucial clinical details necessary for AI reasoning. Meddies PII is built to handle multilingual data and various text formats found in healthcare settings, offering a starting point for hospitals needing to secure patient data for AI applications. AI

IMPACT Provides a foundational tool for healthcare AI, enabling safer use of clinical data while preserving its utility.

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Meddies PII: Open model for clinical text de-identification released

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  1. r/LocalLLaMA TIER_1 English(EN) · /u/TheREXincoming ·

    Meddies PII: An Open Multilingual De-identification Model for Clinical Text

    <!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>A clinical AI model does not need to know who the patient is to reason clinically. </p> <p>It needs the symptoms, medications, lab results, diagnosis history, and treatment course. </p> <p>The problem is that in real medical records, those facts …