Secur-e-health

The Secur-e-health – Privacy-preserving cross-organizational data analysis in the healthcare sector project is funded by the program Portugal 2020 and it aims at providing a roadmap for a fast, safe, and efficient digital transformation of the healthcare sector.

Analyzing data in segregated federations requires a new approach to digital trust and privacy. This problem is exacerbated in highly regulated and compartmentalized industries, such as healthcare. In this area, confidential healthcare data is often kept siloed in a way that cannot be efficiently leveraged for legitimate medical, research and/or data analysis purposes.

In this project, it is intended to combine several new technologies in order to provide a fully integrated technology stack capable of supporting secure, privacy-preserving data analysis on fully segregated data sets. This technology stack is referred to as the “Secur-e-Health System”. This innovative solution requires new approaches to:

1. Design and implement a new digital ID infrastructure that proposes a federated identity on top of a distributed, decentralized and open data architecture.
2. Combine cutting-edge technologies to connect data silos, consisting of performance improvements and new combinations of privacy-preserving data analysis techniques, including Multi-Party Computation in Federated Learning approaches.

The Secur-e-Health system enables medical institutions of all types to collaborate with each other (even across different regulatory regimes) and combine data analysis and insights.

This is expected to have a significant impact on the quality of predictive medical models, the efficiency of data-driven treatments, the acceleration of new clinical research, and the improvement of healthcare in general.

Finally, this implementation is considerably more flexible, more scalable, and less expensive than existing systems. In fact, we reasonably expect an acceleration in the rate of customer adoption of the integrated solution beyond the scope of the project and the partner countries (Canada, Finland, Germany, Netherlands, Portugal, Turkey).

In short, Secur-e-Health provides a roadmap for the fast, secure and efficient digital transformation of the healthcare sector. Given the interoperability features of the technology stack, we anticipate being able to reuse the same system across different industries.

Portugal 2020

875,654.45€

240,297.39€

NORTE-01-0247-FEDER-181418

01/01/2022 to 30/06/2023

Alberto Freitas (PI)