The healthcare ecosystem creates enormous privacy and data protection risks for patients and users. Managing the impact of those risks is a vital part of working in healthcare.
Within health services, people - whether patients or other service users - have a right to the protection of their privacy. Creating plans to ensure this sensitive data remains uncompromised is vital to both our team and our clients.
Public and private organisations have legal obligations. When it comes to the use and protection of personal information, these organisations must meet several stringent commitments. Moreover, stakeholder expectations around privacy are growing, and meeting these expectations is vital to the protection of brand value, reputation, and client trust.
Board members, investors, advisors and other interested parties expect the organisations they have an interest in to keep their commitments and maintain compliance. Without a plan for proper management of sensitive data, these commitments become hard to uphold.
Privacy and healthcare regulators require adherence to the regulations governing privacy. They have a range of powers to ensure adherence when necessary.
Deep experience and knowledge of privacy in healthcare.
Industry-side experience in designing, implementing and managing privacy and data protection programmes and solutions.
Multi-national approach with international presence and capabilities – EU, Canada, US, and UK.
A multi-disciplinary team with expertise in privacy, legal, risk, information security, operations, ethics, and project management.
Our principles guide our work every day. They ensure we deliver excellent solutions that meet the needs of our clients and exceed expectations.
Think about the long term; ensure the path is sustainable, practical, and resilient.
Work around obstacles, overcome constraints; adjust to achieve goals.
Commit to the plan and take responsibility for the outcome.
Show appreciation for others and help them reach their potential.
Accept personal responsibility for decisions, the right and wrong ones.
Create open and respectful relationships; trust and be trusted.
Embrace change and leverage it.
In healthcare, stakeholder expectations are high. The impact of failing to manage privacy risks goes beyond your business. The consequences can be harmful and long-lasting. We work with life sciences and digital health clients to identify and address privacy risks. Then we focus on implementing and managing solutions, so you can focus on what you do best.
Impact Privacy supports clients engaged at all levels of the healthcare sector. Non-healthcare businesses that face data protection risks associated with health data or biometrics, or that simply have complex needs, also engage our services.
Processing during the research life cycle can include experimental, observational, acquired, and simulated data. Privacy protection is required for data subjects and for researchers. Some studies have international sites, which increases the complexity of compliance. Impact Privacy has experience with privacy and research studies. We can help with privacy compliance for clinical operations.
From defining objectives and data requirements through beta to end-of-life, digital health teams make decisions about data. How to comply with privacy legislation goes hand in hand with planning and with design. Impact Privacy works with development and marketing teams on privacy by design strategies, best practices, and compliance. We can help with product privacy and comprehensive privacy management programmes.
The responsibility to protect personal information and comply with privacy legislation doesn’t end with businesses activities. Most privacy laws bring contractors, processors, vendors, and service providers under the same privacy umbrella as the companies engaging them. Impact Privacy supports the entire value chain delivering healthcare. From due diligence to evidence of good practices, we partner with all kinds of businesses in the healthcare ecosystem.
