Personal Health Train on FHIR: A Privacy Preserving Federated Approach for Analyzing FAIR Data in Healthcare

Ananya Choudhury*, Johan van Soest, Stuti Nayak, Andre Dekker

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Abstract

Big data and machine learning applications focus on retrieving data on a central location for analysis. However, healthcare data can be sensitive in nature and as such difficult to share and make use for secondary purposes. Healthcare vendors are restricted to share data without proper consent from the patient. There is a rising awareness among individual patients as well regarding sharing their personal information due to ethical, legal and societal problems. The current data-sharing platforms in healthcare do not sufficiently handle these issues. The rationale of the Personal Health Train (PHT) approach shifts the focus from sharing data to sharing processing/analysis applications and their respective results. A prerequisite of the PHT-infrastructure is that the data is FAIR (findable, accessible, interoperable, reusable). The aim of the paper is to describe a methodology of finding the number of patients diagnosed with hypertension and calculate cohort statistics in a privacy-preserving federated manner. The whole process completes without individual patient data leaving the source. For this, we rely on the Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) standard.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationMachine Learning, Image Processing, Network Security and Data Sciences - 2nd International Conference, MIND 2020, Proceedings
EditorsArup Bhattacharjee, Samir Kr. Borgohain, Badal Soni, Gyanendra Verma, Xiao-Zhi Gao
PublisherSpringer
Pages85-95
Number of pages11
Volume1240 CCIS
ISBN (Print)9789811563140
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Jan 2020
Event2nd International Conference on Machine Learning, Image Processing, Network Security and Data Sciences - Silchar, India
Duration: 30 Jul 202031 Jul 2020
Conference number: 2

Publication series

SeriesCommunications in Computer and Information Science
Volume1240 CCIS
ISSN1865-0929

Conference

Conference2nd International Conference on Machine Learning, Image Processing, Network Security and Data Sciences
Abbreviated titleMIND 2020
Country/TerritoryIndia
CitySilchar
Period30/07/2031/07/20

Keywords

  • FAIR
  • FHIR
  • Personal health train

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