Abschlussworkshop des cloud4health-Projekts

Researchers, developers, and data protection experts jointly develop data protection-compliant and secure cloud services for medical data analysis. Diverse applications in the field of diagnosis support, quality management, and health economics are available. Successful completion of the cloud4health project, a cloud computing project supported by the Federal Ministry of Economics and Energy (BMWi) within the framework of the Trusted Cloud technology program.

Motivation and the Project

cloud4health enables smart data analyses on medical data for the first time and provides a secure cloud architecture for this purpose. In cloud4health, text analysis technologies and cloud computing approaches were developed and evaluated in concrete medical and economically relevant application scenarios. From now on, large virtual patient populations can be accessed, which will serve to provide data protection-compliant analysis of diverse questions from research, development, and health economics, thus contributing to improved patient care.

To protect sensitive medical data, the project team, in close collaboration with clinic and regional data protection officers, developed a data protection and security concept that meets the special requirements in the healthcare sector. The concept was supplemented by a legal opinion and is intended to strengthen the healthcare sector's trust in cloud applications - especially in the use of particularly sensitive data.

Project Conclusion

The various project results will be presented in a public workshop in the auditorium of the Medical Valley Center at Henkestrasse 91, 91052 Erlangen, on November 20, 2014. This includes the established data protection-compliant technical infrastructure and the project-established procedures and their evaluation. Project participants, clinicians, software developers, and interested parties are cordially invited to this event. A detailed agenda and the invitation letter can be found here.

Consortium

The project consortium consists of Averbis GmbH, the Fraunhofer Institute for Algorithms and Scientific Computing SCAI, the Chair of Medical Informatics at Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, RHÖN-KLINIKUM AG, and the TMF - Technology and Methods Platform for Networked Medical Research. The project started on December 01, 2011, and is funded by the Federal Ministry of Economics and Energy (BMWi) within the Trusted Cloud funding program under the code 01MD11010, based on a decision of the German Bundestag.