De Identified Data News Today

The value of data is on the minds of all industries right now, and health care is no different. The increased attention comes with the very significant shift in thinking, advanced by...

The Joint Commission is kicking off a new voluntary certification program for hospitals' "responsible use" of health data. The effort aims to help address

The Joint Commission is kicking off a new voluntary certification program for hospitals' "responsible use" of health data. The effort aims to help address

Acute care and critical access hospitals must join The Joint Commission National Healthcare Safety Network as part of the ORYX initiative to measure hospital performance.

Using a Bayesian modelling approach, Ramanan Laxminarayan and colleagues, explore the global impact of a maternal vaccine against Klebsiella pneumoniae on neonatal sepsis and associated mortality.

Komodo Health and Datavant are expanding their partnership to make it even easier for companies to bring together disparate datasets

Colorado became the third state to enact a comprehensive privacy law. The Colorado Privacy Act CPA has elements in common with the California Consumer Privacy Act CCPA and California Privacy Rights Act CPRA and largely tracks the new Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act VCDPA.

Just when organizations start to feel comfortable with the CCPA, this year we saw the passage of two new privacy laws in Virginia and Colorado and nearly another in Connecticut. We discuss the VCDPA and the CoPA, as well as the pending privacy law in Connecticut.

The terms deidentified and deidentification are used in privacy statutes and are exempt from most privacy- and security-related requirements. As we explain, differences exist between how the term was defined in the CCPA and how it was defined in later state privacy statutes.