BT Selects Sapior to Secure NHS Patient Data
Posted on: Tuesday, 6 September 2005, 03:01 CDT
Sapior Ltd. announces that BT has awarded Sapior a nine-year contract to enhance data security and privacy for the new NHS Care Records Service. The Sapior pseudonymisation solution will be used to de-identify sensitive patient information for use in secondary medical purposes rather than direct patient care.
Sapior has been selected as one of a number of suppliers working with prime contractor BT on the NHS Care Records service. This national patient record database will be one of the largest in the world and will eventually contain a summary care record for every NHS patient in England. Sapior will ensure the confidentiality of these data, whilst they are being used for secondary activities like financial transfers, management information and medical research.
"Sapior offers a mature, forward-looking data privacy solution that integrates easily and already meets significant future requirements," explains Rob Story, NHS Care Records Service programme director, BT. "Sapior has been extremely responsive to the demands of this ambitious project."
"Our significant experience in Business Intelligence enables us to understand and provide for the unique security needs of sensitive data being analysed or shared over extended time periods, and to accommodate the performance required by such a massive database," said Robert Navarro, Managing Director of Sapior Ltd.
Pseudonymisation, a Privacy Enhancing Technology (PET), has been suggested by the UK Information Commissioner as a way to permit necessary access to patient information whilst hiding patient identities and other sensitive information. Pseudonymisation, or "reversible anonymisation", is essentially the replacement of identifiers - such as name, address or NHS number - with pseudonyms. Pseudonymised data can be used for audits, research, and administrative tasks or other work that requires access to relationships and trends in the data but not necessarily to all of the sensitive patient information.
About Sapior
Sapior Ltd. (www.sapior.com) enables organisations to use and exchange data ethically. Sapior software ensures the security and privacy of sensitive data, especially where data is regulated or outsourced. Used by financial services and healthcare, Sapior Pseudonymisation solutions address internal threats such as malicious employees, whilst securing the analysis, testing and sharing of data with partners.
Sapior is a trademark of Sapior Ltd. All other products and brand names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies.
Source: Business Wire
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