The Chief Privacy Officer’s Guide to Vendor Evaluation: 10 Questions to Ask Your De-Identification Partner

A de-identification partner handles some of your organization’s most sensitive data. Choosing one requires a clear understanding of its methods, expertise, security practices, and ability to support your use case over time.

In this guide, Datavant Chief Privacy Officer Alya Sulaiman shares 10 questions to help teams:

• Assess how a vendor balances privacy requirements with the analytical utility needed for your use case.
• Evaluate its experience with relevant data types, expert qualifications, and approach to re-identification risk.v
• Examine its documentation, data security, contractual commitments, and process for reassessing risk as circumstances change.
• Compare potential partners using a weighted scorecard for RFPs and vendor evaluations.