New course and professional credential to address the gap between the increasing need to share healthcare data responsibly and the shortage of experts trained to use the HITRUST De-identification Framework to manage risk, protect privacy and achieve regulatory compliance
Ottawa, ON February 25, 2016 – Privacy Analytics – the leading provider of software that safeguards and enables personal health data for secondary purposes – announced today that it will partner with the Health Information Trust Alliance (HITRUST) to develop a new training and certification program to increase the number of experts capable of applying the HITRUST De-identification Framework.
Developed in collaboration with healthcare, information security, and de-identification professionals, the HITRUST De-Identification Framework provides a consistent, managed methodology for the de-identification of data and the sharing of compliance and risk information among entities and their key stakeholders. The new training and certification program is based on the HITRUST De-identification Framework, launched last year.
“De-identification is a key method for protecting privacy by preventing a patient’s identity from being connected with health information and is a key mechanism for allowing the sharing of health information for secondary purposes under the HIPAA Privacy Rule,” said Dr. Bryan Cline, Vice President, HITRUST. “The HITRUST De-identification Framework follows best practices and builds on many decades of experience with the de-identification of health and other data, while simplifying and streamlining the process of data sharing.”
To learn more about the training program or to register, please visit: HITRUST Academy: Practical Applications of Data De-identification.
Read the full press release here.
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