A Certification Program for Privacy by Design
Privacy by Design (PbD), a framework developed by Ann Cavoukian, was unanimously passed as an international framework for privacy and data protection in 2010, by the International Assembly of Privacy...
View ArticleHealth Industry Target of Data Breaches
MNet News Collection published the article, Health Industry Will be a Target of Data Breaches in 2016, reflecting on the results of Privacy Analytics’ survey results. Using data from the report, The...
View ArticleDisruptive Techs Can Help Health-Care Privacy
Bloomberg’s BNA News reported on the 17th Annual Security and Privacy Conference in Victoria, BC. “Clinicians and privacy officers shouldn’t fear but embrace disruptive technologies to enhance privacy...
View ArticleEHR vs EMR – What’s the difference?
After attending a recent trade show, it became apparent that organizations with similar products will use EHR vs EMR – prompting me to ask, what is the difference between these two common terms?...
View ArticleLexicon for Unstructured Data
Introducing Privacy Analytics Lexicon Demand for access to rapidly growing volumes of unstructured data is being driven by medical researchers seeking new insights, regulatory entities requiring better...
View ArticleDeloitte Discusses our Survey
Deloitte’s Perspective’s blog, featured the story: Health Care Current: December 15, 2015: From microscope to pill bottle: The journey to patient centricity. Underneath is a collection of articles...
View ArticleSecurity, Risk and the Mobile Device
Ponemon’s report, How Much is the Data on Your Mobile Device Worth? offers a startling view of how vulnerable individuals are when it comes to their smart phones and tablets. Here are a few key...
View ArticleAnonymization for EMA Policy 0070
Big Challenges and Solutions for Anonymizing Clinical Trial Data Under the EMA Policy 0070, manufacturers are required to submit anonymized versions of clinical reports to the agency, as well as a risk...
View ArticleBreak The 80/20 Rule Of Health Data
Health IT Outcomes published Privacy Analytics’ Pam Buffone’s article, Using De-identification To Break The 80/20 Rule Of Health Data. In her article, Buffone, discusses the fact that 80% of health...
View ArticleThe Promise of Big Data Analytics
What if we could know who will get sick? Or figure out who is at risk of getting an infection before it happens? What if we could prevent an influenza outbreak? Providing insight into challenges like...
View ArticleThe Rise of Big Data in Healthcare
Over the past decade, a metamorphosis has been taking place in how health information is collected and stored. Gone are the days of written scripts and paper charts, replaced by real-time medical...
View ArticleHFS Spotlight on Privacy Analytics
HFS Research highlighted Privacy Analytics in their Spotlight article, Assessing and Anonymizing Personal Health Data for the “Greater Good”. They highlight this key point: “Protecting health data is...
View ArticleChallenges in Big Data Analytics
Organizations from pharmaceutical manufacturers to health insurance companies to hospitals are looking to share, aggregate and connect disparate sources of healthcare data. In doing so, they hope to...
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Sharing PHI – Best Practices in Security and Privacy
The threat landscape facing healthcare IT is becoming more sophisticated. As theft of medical records and fraud rise, so do the controls placed on data. At the same time, demands for data sharing...
View ArticleDealing with Data Variety in Healthcare
Healthcare does not always rely on discrete pieces of data. While many elements captured in an EHR or used in insurance claim and billing systems are structured data, much of what is generated on a...
View ArticleThe Future of Big Data Analytics
The healthcare industry has been slower than other sectors to embrace computerized information systems like EHRs, in part, because of concerns over the privacy of personal health information. While it...
View ArticleDe-identification Protocol for Open Data
The International Association of Privacy Professionals, or IAPP, has published a new article from Privacy Analytics’ CEO, Dr Khaled El Emam, A de-identification protocol for open data. In his piece, Dr...
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What’s Next for Healthcare Privacy & Security
Join privacy expert Kirk Nahra in the webinar, What’s Next for Healthcare Privacy & Security. The healthcare industry continues to face enormous change in connection with privacy and data security...
View ArticleAchieving Clinical Trials Transparency
Recent policy changes by Europe’s regulatory authority for drugs and devices has rekindled the pharmaceutical industry’s focus on clinical trials transparency. While there have been many initiatives to...
View ArticleRocket Science Happens Every Day
On April 20, 2016, IT News published comments from Australian Information Commissioner Timothy Pilgrim in their article: Pilgrim warns data de-identification is ‘rocket science.’ Pilgrim warns that...
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