Case Study: Ontario Institute for Cancer Research achieves secure cancer data sharing with Privacy Analytics

Ontario Institute for Cancer Research launches cd-link in 2010 with Privacy Analytics to protect patient data under PHIPA and HIPAA

The Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, in collaboration with Cancer Care Ontario, faced the challenge of making sensitive cancer data available for health services research while strictly complying with both Ontario (PHIPA) and US (HIPAA) privacy legislation. To achieve this, they established the cd-link program and partnered with Privacy Analytics for its data de-identification expertise.

Privacy Analytics provided the solution to safeguard and de-identify patient-level information, enabling the cd-link data release program to proceed. This allowed the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research to successfully make its cancer data directly accessible to healthcare researchers, breaking down data siloes to advance its research initiatives.

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