John Halamka January 21, 2020
Last week at JP Morgan, Mayo Clinic announced a new collaboration with nference that I would describe as “Cloud-hosted, de-identified, federated learning in which the tools are brought to the data instead of sending data to the tools”
This Healthleaders article describes it well.
Here’s a broad overview. Let’s start with 3 containers.
The first container is controlled by Mayo Clinic, holds identified data, and has one purpose – the development and optimization of de-identification algorithms. Selected data scientists, who are accountable to Mayo Clinic, are asked to help with algorithms via time limited, audited access to the container. They are either Mayo staff or collaborators from outside who are trained in Mayo policies and held accountable...
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