Case Study: Epic advances secure healthcare research and patient care with Privacy Analytics

Epic grows Cosmos usage 600% year over year with Privacy Analytics

Epic, a developer of healthcare software, wanted to create a massive, secure dataset called Cosmos to facilitate research and improve patient care. Their challenge was to build this platform while ensuring the highest levels of security and patient privacy to earn the trust of participating health systems. To achieve this, they engaged the data privacy expert Privacy Analytics for its expert determination service.

Privacy Analytics evaluated the entire Cosmos environment and provided an expert determination that the data was fully de-identified, meeting the highest levels of the SAFE Data Standard. This allowed the dataset to safely retain valuable data types for research. As a result, research community usage of Cosmos grew by 600% year over year, leading to faster insights and over two dozen scientific papers. Privacy Analytics' solution enabled Epic to build a trusted, large-scale collaboration that protects patient privacy.

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