Expert Data Opinion Services

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Expert Data Opinion Services
How Expert Data Opinion Services Work

Our Services

These services will help you strengthen privacy protection and safeguard your reputation. Feel free to choose one of the following or ask about a custom package for your organization.

Re-identification Risk Determination (RRD) for Data

We work with you to:

1

Review an anonymized (or de-identified) dataset and assess the identifiability of your data, taking into account the specifics of your data release scenario.

2

Review your data protection plan before you launch, determining the extent to which it safeguards individual privacy.

3

Understand your overall data environment and context, making suggestions to improve privacy protection as you go forward.

If you’re actively pursuing HIPAA De-Identification and Expert Determination or anonymization under GDPR or CCPA, working with Privacy Analytics on an RRD is a great first step.

Re-identification Risk Determination (RRD) for DICOM

This service is the same as the RRD for Data, but it’s designed specifically for your Digital Imaging and Communication (DICOM) records. If you’re not sure the medical data your company wants to leverage is compliant with applicable regulations, such as HIPAA, CCPA or GDPR, we can work together to find out.

Re-Identification Risk Determination & Anonymization (RRDA) for Data and DICOM

An RRDA includes everything in the RRD above plus we work together to anonymize (or de-identify) your dataset. This gives your organization the confidence you need to share data under regulations such as GDPR, HIPAA or CCPA.

Motivated Intruder Testing

A motivated intruder test asks if a reasonably competent person could identify people in your dataset. This test can determine whether the identifiability of your dataset is below the threshold for your regulatory environment.

How we assess your data

There are 5 steps in a typical RRD or RRDA. Your team will be fully informed and involved with each step, providing key inputs and helping with critical decision making.

We review your encrypted data in our secure data enclave. (Ask us about any specific data location requirements.)

1

Review

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We work with you to analyze and understand the context of your specific data release scenario (every data release is different)

2

Analysis

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We evaluate your data, using our industry-leading Eclipse software to determine its potential for identifiability. For an RRDA we also anonymize your data.

3

Implementation

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If any further anonymization strategies are needed to reduce the identifiability of your data, we work with you to determine what’s appropriate for your data scenario. This can include data transformations or data protection mechanisms, or both.

4

Recommendation

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After the work is complete, you get a comprehensive report documenting the results of the work, the details of the methodology utilized, and all relevant supporting materials. For an RRDA you also get the final, anonymized dataset.

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Reporting

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Archiving / Destroying

Are you unleashing the full value of data you retain?

Your Challenges

Do you need help...

  • Unleashing the full value of retained data so they can be put to work safely and responsibly in line with privacy regulation?
  • Defining and implementing effective archival and disposal processes for personal data?

OUR SOLUTION

Value Retention

  • Retain the business value in your data through anonymization.
  • Ensure compliance in your retention & destruction strategy.
  • Maximize the reuse of information by removing what is personal.

Client Success

Client: Comcast

Situation: California’s Consumer Privacy Act inspired Comcast to evolve the way in which they protect the privacy of customers who consent to share personal information with them.

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Evaluating

Are you achieving intended outcomes from data?

Your Challenge

Do you need help...

  • Optimizing the use / analysis of data to achieve your organization’s intended outcomes with measured success?

OUR SOLUTION

Unbiased Results

  • Reduce / minimize risk of bias in your data for machine learning.
  • Ensure transparency, fairness, and AI ethics / compliance.
  • Ensure data ethics & compliance in your data models and results.

Client Success

Client: Integrate.ai

Situation: Integrate.ai’s AI-powered tech helps clients improve their online experience by sharing signals about website visitor intent. They wanted to ensure privacy remained fully protected within the machine learning / AI context that produces these signals.

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Accessing

Do the right people have the right data?

Your Challenges

Do you need help...

  • Ensuring the right people have access to the right data at the right times?

OUR SOLUTION

Usable and Reusable Data

  • Enable internal access and / or external sharing of data for primary and / or secondary uses.
  • Ensure data are useful and reusable in alignment with FAIR principles.
  • Ensure data have the right level of privacy protection for the use.

Client Success

Client: Novartis

Situation: Novartis’ digital transformation in drug R&D drives their need to maximize value from vast stores of clinical study data for critical internal research enabled by their data42 platform.

 

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Maintaining

Are you empowering people to safely leverage trusted data?

Your Challenges

Do you need help...

  • Maintaining / processing data securely and efficiently to promote data enablement with auditable proof of compliance?

OUR SOLUTION

Security / compliance efficiency

  • Creating synthetic versions of data to be used for innovation / AIML.
  • Applying data minimization principles to reduce your risk exposure.
  • Transforming your data for secondary uses and access.

CLIENT SUCCESS

Client: ASCO’s CancerLinQ

Situation: CancerLinQ™, a subsidiary of American Society of Clinical Oncology, is a rapid learning healthcare system that helps oncologists aggregate and analyze data on cancer patients to improve care. To achieve this goal, they must de-identify patient data provided by subscribing practices across the U.S.

 

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Acquiring / Collecting

Are you acquiring the right data? Do you have appropriate consent?

Your Challenge

Do you need help...

  • Ensuring the acquisition / collection of the right data under the appropriate consent / contracts to maintain corporate integrity?

OUR SOLUTIONS

Consent / Contracting strategy

  • Developing a consent / contractual framework for collecting / sourcing.
  • Creating a comms strategy for internal / external stakeholders.
  • Ingesting and transforming data safely to earn trust.

Client Success

Client: IQVIA

Situation: Needed to ensure the primary market research process was fully compliant with internal policies and regulations such as GDPR. 

 

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Planning

Are You Effectively Planning for Success?

Your Challenges

Do you need help...

  • Defining a clear data strategy to achieve desired outcomes?
  • Getting it right at the start to avoid costly privacy missteps later?

OUR SOLUTION

Build privacy in by design

  • Building privacy into your data plan / platform / pipeline upfront.
  • Establishing a trusted data strategy (ethics, compliance, privacy).

Client Success

Client: Nuance

Situation: Needed to enable AI-driven product innovation with a defensible governance program for the safe and responsible use
of voice-to-text data under Shrems II.

 

Visit Nuance.com to read the full story >

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