Privacy

This past weekend, the Donald A.B. Lindberg Award for Innovation in Informatics presented by the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) was awarded to Abel Kho for his pioneering work and research applying privacy-preserving record linkage (PPRL) methods to healthcare. Abel Kho, MD, MS, FACMI Abel is a practicing physician and faculty…

Datavant’s mission is to connect the world’s health data, and make it accessible for valuable research and analytics. The traditional approach of aggregating data creates a direct tradeoff between individual privacy and analytical capability. With health data, this isn’t good enough. The stakes are high — data-driven decisions can save lives, just…

This is a non-technical survey of approaches to how “deidentification” happens in healthcare, pros and cons of a variety of approaches, and an overview of where privacy-preserving technology is headed. Thanks to privacy technology thought leaders Abel Kho, Andrei Lapets, Dan Barth-Jones, and Ian Coe (as well as internal experts…

Datavant is a health data technology company focused on facilitating the exchange of patient information in a privacy-preserving way. Our software de-identifies patient health data and provides a secure method of linking patient records across disparate datasets without compromising individual privacy. Datavant’s de-identification and linking software is installed at over…

The news today is full of discussions about data privacy and data protection legislation, with diverse views from policymakers, advocacy groups, and industry. For healthcare leaders, it can be challenging to keep track of what applies to your data, what changes are worth following, and how the final legislation could…

Last year, California passed the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), which will go into effect in 2020. Widely seen as a “GDPR-light,” the law could have many implications on the healthcare industry, even though the law excludes certain types of health data. This article is an overview of some of…