Data Protection Compliance in Healthcare

By considering your data processing operation as a whole, a data protection compliance strategy provides your company with a step-by-step guide of the requirements, timelines and procedures applicable to your particular journey.  Unlike a reactive approach that consumes vast resources in a disorganized way, a data protection compliance strategy proactively assesses the applicable requirements and decides on timely, organized and time-efficient ways of meeting them.

If your company processes  health data across two or more jurisdictions, you would benefit from a data protection strategy to guide you through the different national requirements, applicable laws, authorities and procedures.  A data protection compliance strategy allows you to timely and efficiently consider all the requirements applicable to your data processing operation in order to proactively plan the steps to be followed for the successful and cost-efficient launching of your product.

Processing health data for health-care purposes would per se make a data protection compliance strategy desirable.  If you add that to the fact that medical research and the development of health-related medicines and devices, require also the transnational processing of personal data, it becomes clear that a data protection compliance strategy is not only desirable but required.  Considering that different laws apply to the processing of personal data in different countries, that transparency obligations vary across jurisdictions and that service providers and health-care institutions from different countries, as well as different authorities and committees, shall be coordinated, a data protection compliance strategy is instrumental for the successful launching of your product.

Health data belongs to the special categories of data. Companies and organizations shall meet strict regulatory requirements to compliantly process this category of personal data and to transfer it to other countries where business partners, investigators or service providers may require to process it.  Knowing, understanding, keeping in mind and complying with all the applicable regulatory requirements can be time and money consuming and can lead to your company’s inability to comply with the law and/or to its inability to process the data that you require to develop and ultimately launch your product. Fortunately, FIRST PRIVACY Health & Medical can help you meet your regulatory requirements while maintaining a thriving business developing the health products and technologies that people need.

A medical device developed integrating appropriate and sufficient safeguards into the processing of personal data in order to protect the rights of data subjects and meet the requirements of the applicable laws is compliant-by-default. In order to develop a compliant-by-default device, all the data protection-relevant circumstances of the product’s development journey shall be assessed.  A proactive approach allows you to take care of data protection compliance while developing the product rather than making expensive and time-consuming changes once the product is ready to be launched.

Four of the top twenty pharmaceutical companies have chosen FIRST PRIVACY as their partner for data protection compliance. Not only do we have a team of experts in your field who can advise you on the best and most efficient way to comply with data protection requirements across all the jurisdictions applicable to your project but we can communicate with you, the applicable authorities and the concerned data subjects in 8 of the official languages of the European Union. We believe that more data means better health and are eager to facilitate your project’s compliance with the applicable data protection laws while you concentrate on your business and develop more and better medicines and medical devices.