Forbes June 18, 2020
To respond effectively to a global pandemic, governments need to have access to very large volumes of healthcare data, collected over a long period of time with patient privacy protected, and sourced from many locations and populations around the world.
Last August, Dr. Eric Topol, Director of the Scripps Research Translational Institute, and Kai-Fu Lee, Chairman and CEO of Sinovation Ventures, published “It Takes a Planet” in Nature Biotechnology. They highlighted the challenge of sharing healthcare data (EHRs not compatible, even in the same country) and the benefit of ethnic diversity of the data. The issues related to privacy and country-specific regulation could be answered, they argued, by applying “federated learning,” where data never leaves the healthcare system where it...
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