A New $k$k-Anonymity Method Based on Generalization First $k$k-Member Clustering for Healthcare Data

Healthcare organizations are collecting more patient data than ever, which creates privacy risks. This research proposes GFKMC (Generalization First k-Member Clustering), a new privacy method that protects patient identities by grouping similar records together while keeping the data useful for analysis, and it works better than older methods by losing less information when privacy protection is increased.