Privacy-Preserving Cohort Analytics for Personalized Health Platforms: A Differentially Private Framework with Stochastic Risk Modeling
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| author | Chakraborty, Richik Liu, Lawrence Hasnain, Syed |
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| contents | Personalized health analytics increasingly rely on population benchmarks to provide contextual insights such as ''How do I compare to others like me?'' However, cohort-based aggregation of health data introduces nontrivial privacy risks, particularly in interactive and longitudinal digital platforms. Existing privacy frameworks such as $k$-anonymity and differential privacy provide essential but largely static guarantees that do not fully capture the cumulative, distributional, and tail-dominated nature of re-identification risk in deployed systems.
In this work, we present a privacy-preserving cohort analytics framework that combines deterministic cohort constraints, differential privacy mechanisms, and synthetic baseline generation to enable personalized population comparisons while maintaining strong privacy protections. We further introduce a stochastic risk modeling approach that treats re-identification risk as a random variable evolving over time, enabling distributional evaluation through Monte Carlo simulation. Adapting quantitative risk measures from financial mathematics, we define Privacy Loss at Risk (P-VaR) to characterize worst-case privacy outcomes under realistic cohort dynamics and adversary assumptions.
We validate our framework through system-level analysis and simulation experiments, demonstrating how privacy-utility tradeoffs can be operationalized for digital health platforms. Our results suggest that stochastic risk modeling complements formal privacy guarantees by providing interpretable, decision-relevant metrics for platform designers, regulators, and clinical informatics stakeholders. |
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| spellingShingle | Privacy-Preserving Cohort Analytics for Personalized Health Platforms: A Differentially Private Framework with Stochastic Risk Modeling Chakraborty, Richik Liu, Lawrence Hasnain, Syed Cryptography and Security Applications Methodology Personalized health analytics increasingly rely on population benchmarks to provide contextual insights such as ''How do I compare to others like me?'' However, cohort-based aggregation of health data introduces nontrivial privacy risks, particularly in interactive and longitudinal digital platforms. Existing privacy frameworks such as $k$-anonymity and differential privacy provide essential but largely static guarantees that do not fully capture the cumulative, distributional, and tail-dominated nature of re-identification risk in deployed systems. In this work, we present a privacy-preserving cohort analytics framework that combines deterministic cohort constraints, differential privacy mechanisms, and synthetic baseline generation to enable personalized population comparisons while maintaining strong privacy protections. We further introduce a stochastic risk modeling approach that treats re-identification risk as a random variable evolving over time, enabling distributional evaluation through Monte Carlo simulation. Adapting quantitative risk measures from financial mathematics, we define Privacy Loss at Risk (P-VaR) to characterize worst-case privacy outcomes under realistic cohort dynamics and adversary assumptions. We validate our framework through system-level analysis and simulation experiments, demonstrating how privacy-utility tradeoffs can be operationalized for digital health platforms. Our results suggest that stochastic risk modeling complements formal privacy guarantees by providing interpretable, decision-relevant metrics for platform designers, regulators, and clinical informatics stakeholders. |
| title | Privacy-Preserving Cohort Analytics for Personalized Health Platforms: A Differentially Private Framework with Stochastic Risk Modeling |
| topic | Cryptography and Security Applications Methodology |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.12105 |