Conveners
Federating Clinical Data for Biomedical Research
- Iulian Dragan (Vital-IT)
Description
The protection of clinical data is of paramount importance but this can hinder its use in research due to ethical and legal constraints.
This presentation will cover the construction of a federated database containing detailed clinical information that is amenable to remote analysis through a central server. The particularity of this system is that it allows complex analyses to be performed without any individual-level data being moved or copied from their original location.
The technical challenges, lessons learned, limitations and opportunities gained by such an approach will be discussed.
