DataSifter Overview
There are no practical, scientifically reliable, and effective mechanisms to share
real clinical data containing clearly identifiable personal health information
(PHI) without compromising either the value of the data (by excessively
scrambling/encoding the information) or by introducing a substantial risk for
re-identification of individuals (by various stratification techniques).
The DataSifter represents a novel method and a computational protocol for on-the-fly
de-identification of sensitive information, e.g., structured Clinical/Epic/PHI data.
This approach provides a complete administrative control over the risk for data
identification when sharing large clinical cohort-based medical data.
At the extremes, a data-governor may specify that either synthetic data or completely
identifiable data is generated and shared with the data-requester.
This decision may be based on data-governor determined criteria about access level,
research needs, etc. For instance, to stimulate innovative pilot studies, the
data office may dial up the level of protection (which may naturally devalue the
information content in the data). On the other hand, for more established and trusted
investigators, the data governors may provide a more egalitarian dataset that
balances preservation of information content (data-energy or analytical-value)
and security (protection of sensitive-information).
In a nutshell, responding to requests by researchers interested in examining specific
healthcare, biomedical, or translational characteristics of multivariate clinical
data, the DataSifter allows data governors, like Healthcare Systems, to filler,
export, package, and share sensitive clinical and medical data for large population
cohorts.
About DataSifter
The "Sensitive Data Sharing Problem" Problem
Confidential data can’t be shared without violating HIPAA and legal rules
designed to protect each patient’s identity.
However, this also hinders health and biomedical scientists from using the
data to study patients’ diseases or conditions, which could lead to new
scientific or health-related breakthroughs.
Health systems struggle with honoring patient privacy, while advancing scientific
learnings that could improve patient care, treatments, and lives.
While biomedical and healthcare applications provide powerful examples of the
ability of the DataSifter to enable cooperation between data-owners and
skills data-analysts, there are many other industries that can significantly
benefit from enabling data sharing. Examples include Census data, CMS data,
fin-tech data, IRS/taxation data, market economic data, business transaction
information, etc.
Detailed documentation
DataSifter provides detailed user-friendly documentation enabling users to customize the functionality, extend the application scope, and easily implement new ideas.
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DataSifter Solution
Allows sensitive data sharing, while protecting confidential patient data to
further health discoveries.
DataSifter is vital for any health institution which requires access to
aggregated sensitive patient data to:
- Expand their scientific research and clinical understanding of patients’ diseases and conditions; and
- Advance their knowledge of clinical treatment, drug effectiveness, and so much more.
The Power of DataSifter
Protecting confidentiality while advancing health science
DataSifter is a new technique for statistical encryption of sensitive information that is HIPPA-compliant. Its proprietary algorithmic process makes possible the sharing of aggregated sensitive health data (e.g., patient clinical or electronic health records) for those currently with unauthorized access without revealing or compromising patients’ confidentiality or privacy.
Innovation
Sharing and Protecting Sensitive Patient Data for Health Research & Drive for New Scientific Discoveries.
