Abstract: Methods of making orally available softgels includes pre-wetting a probiotic with an edible oil to produce a wetted supplement, wherein the edible oil is present in a range of 25% to 75% by weight of a total weight of the probiotic and edible oil, heating the wetted supplement to a temperature in a range of 35° C. to 40° C., blending the wetted supplement and a molten chocolate component together to produce a liquid fill material, encapsulating the liquid fill material in a softgel coating to produce an orally available softgel, and cooling the orally available softgel to have a softgel capsule shell comprising 5% to 15% by weight water. The fill material is a solid at room temperature in the cooled orally available softgel.

Abstract: Methods and systems for monitoring a risk of re-identification for a dataset de-identified from a source database containing information identifiable to individuals are described. A first aspect of the disclosure relates to a method comprising: providing a graphical user interface (GUI) configured to receive as input the dataset and updates to said dataset; providing as input to the GUI the dataset; estimating a risk of re-identification for the dataset or a subset of the database; providing as input to the GUI the updates to said dataset; regularly monitoring whether the risk of re-identification for at least one of the updated dataset, the subset of the database and the updates is below a predetermined dataset risk threshold; and if the risk of re-identification has reached or exceeded the predetermined dataset risk threshold, notifying the user.

Abstract: Methods and systems for monitoring a risk of re-identification for a dataset de-identified from a source database containing information identifiable to individuals are described. A first aspect of the disclosure relates to a method comprising: providing a graphical user interface (GUI) configured to receive as input the dataset and updates to said dataset; providing as input to the GUI the dataset; estimating a risk of re-identification for the dataset or a subset of the database; providing as input to the GUI the updates to said dataset; regularly monitoring whether the risk of re-identification for at least one of the updated dataset, the subset of the database and the updates is below a predetermined dataset risk threshold; and if the risk of re-identification has reached or exceeded the predetermined dataset risk threshold, notifying the user.

Abstract: A method and system for identifying individuals in a healthcare dataset who are likely deceased without exposing protected health information to users. The present invention assembles mortality data from different sources, de-identifies this data by removing or modifying all elements regarded as protected health information, and adds a unique encrypted person token to each record. The tokenized mortality data is merged with other healthcare data sets that have likewise been de-identified and tokenized by matching the unique person tokens in data sets against each other. The resulting merged data sets include an indicator of mortality, a uniqueness score giving the likelihood that the person token is unique, and a death validity score giving a measure of confidence that the person is actually deceased.