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Privacy Design, Consultation, and Expert Validation

At the Core of Healthcare Data is Patients.

They have a Right to Privacy Protections.


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Privacy Design Consultation
and Monitoring

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HIPAA Expert Determination
and Deidentification Validation

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Fractional
Expert Support


From data originators to end recipients, we all have a duty to protect patient privacy. A duty that is reflected in legislation, regulation, and contractual obligations.

And that’s why ensuring patient privacy is protected is a core component of our Firinn Trusted Third Party Framework.

What We Offer

Fractional Privacy Experts

  • Support and design consultation on privacy and deidentification in health care data when developing new offerings

  • Expert privacy knowledge - on hand when you’re faced with exceptions to your core healthcare use cases and are using novel data types

  • Meeting and materials support - an expert voice when you need it, feel more confident engaging stakeholders (internally and externally) on your deidentified data

  • Cost and time efficiencies - understand appropriate levels of deidentification the first time around, focus your efforts where they need to be focused, to save time, money, and resources in developing, implementing, and rolling out your offerings

Assessment, Monitoring, and Validation

  • Understand and manage the risk areas of your processes and validate that you’re complying with relevant regulations

  • Put in place light touch monitoring systems to ensure you maintain compliance and privacy obligations

  • Have confidence your data is deidentified as it is used both by you and any downstream partners

  • Get simple to understand HIPAA expert determination reports that are easy to implement, update, and maintain

What We Deliver

  • We focus on pragmatic, contextual, and decisive considerations that lead to better and faster outcomes that work for you and your stakeholders

  • Streamlined and easy to understand reports with outcomes that are implementable

What Partnership We Promise

  • Pragmatic - you have a use case to deliver, the solutions and advice we provide needs to work to complement this

  • Transparent - understand our ways of working, how we approach and think about your needs, and be able to ask questions

  • Collaborative shared ownership - embed our work into your systems, and share knowledge for clients to be an active part of any onward reviews, to ensure lightest touch assessment going forward

Who should consider our Privacy Offerings?

Any Firm handling Deidentified Healthcare Data…

…Originators,
Solution Providers,
and End Users

Who…

  • Needs an expert to validate data is deidentified to deidentification standards

  • Feels their needs are not being met by expert offerings in the current market

  • Understands privacy needs to be embedded in solution design and wants to do it efficiently and correctly

  • Is looking to work with Experts who have unprecedented knowledge and experience working across the ecosystem on a variety of data forms, with all customer types. And, critically, understand your friction points