Workshop

Febrl - A freely available record linkage system with a graphical user interface

Authors: 
Christen, Peter
Year: 
2008
Venue: 
Australasian Workshop Health Data and Knowledge Management

Record or data linkage is an important enabling tech-
nology in the health sector, as linked data is a cost-
effective resource that can help to improve research
into health policies, detect adverse drug reactions, re-
duce costs, and uncover fraud within the health sys-
tem. Significant advances, mostly originating from
data mining and machine learning, have been made
in recent years in many areas of record linkage tech-
niques. Most of these new methods are not yet im-
plemented in current record linkage systems, or are
hidden within ‘black box’ commercial software. This

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