HIPAA Expert Determination and De-Identification-as-a-Service

HIPAA Expert Determination and De-Identification-as-a-Service

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10 Best Practices for ROI on HIPAA Expert Determination

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) requires de-identification experts to follow generally accepted statistical and scientific methods for addressing re-identification risk.

However, having supported clients and partners with Expert Determination since 2007, we have discovered several factors beyond the math that can significantly impact your organization’s ability to reach its desired outcomes.

Taken together, these 10 factors can help ensure compliance while streamlining the process, saving you time and money. In this white paper, you will find a breakdown of each factor, giving you a set of best practices for improving ROI on your next HIPAA Expert Determination. 

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Using sensitive health data comes with privacy challenges

Organizations working with health data face growing pressure to innovate and collaborate with wider ecosystems. Driving greater advancements in patient health has become a priority. Insight-rich data is the key.

But using sensitive health data beyond its original purpose—whether internal or external—comes with substantial privacy challenges.

You need reliable de-identification

Health data that is subject to HIPAA offers profound societal benefits. But datasets can be huge, timelines are tight, and you need to preserve the most useful data while protecting privacy. That’s why the HIPAA Expert Determination method of de-identification is likely your best bet.

Luk Arbuckle explains why…

We can help you de-identify your data to the HIPAA Standard

Regardless of the size and scale of your organization, we can help you avoid significant legal, financial, and reputational risks from the use of patient data to improve services and health outcomes.

Leverage our HIPAA Expert Determination-as-a-Service if you…

  • Require evidence from a trusted source that your de-identified data complies with HIPAA Expert Determination
  • Are dealing with an unusual or tricky scenario or one that requires speedy delivery
  • Are switching from HIPAA Safe Harbor to HIPAA Expert Determination to increase the utility of your de-identified data

Use our full HIPAA Expert Determination and De-Identification Service if you…

  • Want your data de-identification handled by a third party as further evidence of HIPAA compliance
  • Lack the time or resources to handle the data de-identification within your organization
  • Are looking for a one-stop-shop to address all your de-identification needs, supported by commercial software and expertise

Join the 100+ companies that have benefited from our expert determiners

Privacy Analytics has over 100 experts—we have the horsepower to tackle the most complex of projects, with the flexibility to customize to our clients’ needs, large or small.

Fast

Find out in as little as 10 business days if your data meets the standard for HIPAA Expert Determination

Defensible

Get clear evidence of your compliance with HIPAA’s Expert Determination de-identification standard.

Functional

Retain the richest possible data utility for predictive analytics, precision medicine, value-based care, and other scenarios where data granularity is important.

5 reasons to trust our expert determiners

1. They have graduate degrees in relevant fields such as statistics and computer science, diverse hands-on experience and specialized training, and are active industry thought leaders.

2. Their work has withstood the most stringent of reviews, including by regulators such as the HHS.

3. Our solutions have been tested extensively in practice, through independent motivated intruder tests.

4. Privacy Analytics has been relied on—including by HITRUST in its De-identification Methodology certification program—to train hundreds of HIPAA Expert Determination practitioners.

5. Our experts leverage Eclipse—enterprise-class, automated, scalable commercial software that transforms vast stores of sensitive data, safely and at scale, through an automated process.

Tight timelines? Concerns about HIPAA compliance? Let’s talk.

We work across a wide range of data types, formats, volumes, and contexts. Let us apply our wealth of experience to your project.

Contact One of Our Experts

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.

 

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