... must be stored and shared in such a manner that the privacy of the patient is maintained. The method proposed, uses data tags to classify health-care data into various color codes which signify the sensitivity of data. It makes use of the ARX tool to anonymize raw health-care data and uses role-based...

..., and summarizing their advantages and disadvantages. Furthermore, it points out the future research directions in the field. Key words:Data mining, Privacy preserving, Distributed environment, perturbation, SMC, Anonymization 1. Introduction Data mining refers to extracting or mining knowledge from large amounts...