SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 10, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Datavant, the leader in helping healthcare organizations securely connect their data, today announced the launch of Privacy Hub to raise the bar for patient privacy and compliance across the healthcare industry; as well as the acquisition of Mirador Analytics, a leading provider of HIPAA expert determination services and technology.

Today, there are too many challenges to bringing together de-identified health datasets for analysis in a way that preserves analytically useful information and offers robust protections for patient privacy under HIPAA. As an integrated component of Datavant's Switchboard, Privacy Hub will simplify and accelerate this process with technology-enabled expert determination (commonly known as certification) while strengthening patient privacy protections.

Using Datavant's Privacy Hub, data holders and independent experts can:
Reduce bottlenecks and speed time to HIPAA compliance with seamless integration of expert determination and automated remediations
Integrate preliminary privacy risk assessment into the data configuration process to anticipate risks that may occur downstream
Monitor and remediate data feeds for compliance with expert determination when linking data through Datavant
(Read Datavant President Travis May's blog post on the future of privacy-preserving technologies.)

Privacy Hub will be available to all data sources, data recipients, and independent experts.

Mirador Analytics has delivered more than 600 expert determinations for leading pharmaceutical, insurance and data analytics companies. Mirador is known for its rigorous and conservative approach to the protection of patient privacy, while maximizing data utility to allow for innovation, efficiency, and development in healthcare. To ensure independence, the Mirador team of 20+ experts will report directly to the President of the Datavant Group.

"Mirador and Datavant have worked closely over the past 18 months as founding members of the COVID-19 Research Database cross-sector coalition," said Dr. Mark Cullen, the Founding Director of the Center for Population Health Sciences and a Professor of Medicine, Biomedical Data Science, and Health Research and Policy at Stanford University. "In the wake of the pandemic, we have seen firsthand the growing demand from the research community for linked real-world data sources that can answer complex questions while simultaneously ensuring patient privacy. Privacy Hub will undoubtedly help address this acute and growing need."

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