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BETTER: Better rEal-world healTh-DaTa distributEd analytics Research platform: project progress and emerging research challenges

2026 · RCIS Workshops · 0 citations · 8 references
Computer Science

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This interdisciplinary project proposes the co-creation of three clinical use cases involving seven medical centers located in the EU and beyond, where sensitive patient data is made available and analyzed in a GDPR-compliant mechanism via a Distributed Analytics (DA) paradigm called the Personal Health Train (PHT).

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