The Patient Privacy Primer details the eight stages of privacy programs from basic to full-strength. While not every organization is ready from day one to put into place a full Proactive Patient Privacy Analytics platform, knowing where you stand today is a good start. This primer defines vocabulary and briefly describes the continuum of approaches to patient privacy:

1. Nothing
2. Random Audits
3. Regular Algorithmic Audits
4. Random Audits + Regular Algorithmic Audits
5. Traditional Patient Privacy Monitoring
6. Patient Privacy Intelligence
7. User Behavior Analysis/Machine Learning
8. Proactive Patient Privacy Analytics Platform