Case Study: CajunCodeFest enables healthcare innovation with Privacy Analytics

CajunCodeFest - Customer Case Study

CajunCodeFest, an open data competition led by the State of Louisiana and the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, needed a way to share real-world healthcare data with developers while protecting patient privacy. Privacy Analytics helped address the challenge by using its software to assess re-identification risk and de-identify sensitive data for secondary use.

Using Privacy Analytics’ risk-based anonymization approach, the state masked and de-identified data covering 200,000 individuals, 30,604 providers, millions of Medicaid claims and prescriptions, and immunization records. The result was 15 viable healthcare applications developed during the 27-hour event, while enabling safer access to data for innovation and supporting ongoing public health analytics.

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