Institution-Specific LLM Prompting Recovers PHI That De-identification Systems and Their Gold Standards Both Miss
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arxiv.org
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Daniel Palacios, Matthew Brady Neeley, Angel Adetomike Otto, Shalini Dhamodharan, John P. Woodhouse, Chi-fan Lin, Mark Zobeck, Zhandong Liu, Hyun-Hwan Jeong
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Why it matters
Purpose-built de-identification tools and the gold standards used to grade them both miss locally-defined PHI — hospital abbreviations, building names, internal codes. Adding institution-specific context windowThe maximum amount of text a model can consider at once — its working memory for the current conversation or task.Full definition → to the prompt recovers those spans and gives you a precision/recall dial.
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context window — The maximum amount of text a model can consider at once — its working memory for the current conversation or task.