{"id":13420,"date":"2020-04-06T11:40:33","date_gmt":"2020-04-06T09:40:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ggba.swiss\/epfl-software-to-enable-secure-data-sharing-for-hospitals\/"},"modified":"2023-07-04T13:40:00","modified_gmt":"2023-07-04T11:40:00","slug":"epfl-software-to-enable-secure-data-sharing-for-hospitals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ggba.swiss\/en\/epfl-software-to-enable-secure-data-sharing-for-hospitals\/","title":{"rendered":"EPFL software to enable secure data-sharing for hospitals"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>The MedCo system aims to facilitate medical research on pathologies \u2014 such as cancer and infectious diseases \u2014 by enabling secure computations on decentralized data.<\/h4>\n<p>After a year of intense cooperation with hospital IT and legal experts, MedCo has now been deployed across the university hospitals of Lausanne, Geneva, and Bern. First released in 2019 as the first operational system to protect sensitive patient data so that it can be used collectively for medical research, the system was developed in the Laboratory for Data Security (<a href=\"https:\/\/lds.epfl.ch\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LDS<\/a>) in EPFL\u2019s School of Computer and Communication Sciences (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.epfl.ch\/schools\/ic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">IC<\/a>), in collaboration with the Lausanne University Hospital (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lausanneuniversityhospital.com\/home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CHUV<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs our ability to analyze and understand the diseases of individual patients grows, learning from experience becomes a necessary driver for improvement in patient care. MedCo enables us to gain precious insight from patients\u2019 clinical histories,\u201d says oncologist Petros Tsantoulis of the Geneva University Hospital (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hug-ge.ch\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">HUG<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>MedCo\u2019s interface is designed to be used by medical professionals who are not necessarily computer science experts. Its decentralized model is based on a cryptographic principle called secure multiparty computation, which makes it possible to confidentially analyze the data at the different hospitals.\u00a0MedCo uses software libraries developed notably by EPFL\u2019s Decentralized and Distributed Systems (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.epfl.ch\/labs\/dedis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">DEDIS<\/a>) Lab, headed by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qRpKGlCUosk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bryan Ford<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h4>Accelerating clinical research in Switzerland<\/h4>\n<p>Following tests in Lausanne, Geneva and Bern, MedCo will also be deployed at the university hospitals of Basel and Zurich, as well as other hospitals in the Swiss Group for Clinical Cancer Research (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sakk.ch\/fr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SAKK<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe opportunity to query decentralized databases securely, while eliminating the possibility of identifying patients, is an important lever for accelerating university clinical research in Switzerland,\u201d says CHUV deputy managing director Oliver Peters.<\/p>\n<h4>A powerful tool against COVID-19<\/h4>\n<p>An international consortium is being set up around this software as part of research into coronavirus. Thanks to MedCo, researchers in hospitals in different countries would be able to compare their data and make progress in understanding the evolution of the disease, the effects of various treatments, the risk factors and the responses to certain therapies. The data concerned are the clinical and genetic data of patients.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The MedCo system aims to facilitate medical research on pathologies \u2014 such as cancer and infectious diseases \u2014 by enabling secure computations on decentralized data. After a year of intense cooperation with hospital IT and legal experts, MedCo has now been deployed across the university hospitals of Lausanne, Geneva, and Bern. First released in 2019 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":13421,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"mc4wp_mailchimp_campaign":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[839],"tags":[884,887],"class_list":["post-13420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech-en","tag-covid-19","tag-software"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>EPFL software to enable secure data-sharing for hospitals - Greater Geneva Bern area<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/staging.ggba.swiss\/en\/epfl-software-to-enable-secure-data-sharing-for-hospitals\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"EPFL software to enable secure data-sharing for hospitals - Greater Geneva Bern area\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The MedCo system aims to facilitate medical research on pathologies \u2014 such as cancer and infectious diseases \u2014 by enabling secure computations on decentralized data. After a year of intense cooperation with hospital IT and legal experts, MedCo has now been deployed across the university hospitals of Lausanne, Geneva, and Bern. First released in 2019 [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/staging.ggba.swiss\/en\/epfl-software-to-enable-secure-data-sharing-for-hospitals\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Greater Geneva Bern area\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-04-06T09:40:33+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-07-04T11:40:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/staging.ggba.swiss\/app\/uploads\/2023\/06\/MedicalData-3.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"945\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"430\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"mathieu\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"mathieu\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/staging.ggba.swiss\/en\/epfl-software-to-enable-secure-data-sharing-for-hospitals\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/staging.ggba.swiss\/en\/epfl-software-to-enable-secure-data-sharing-for-hospitals\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"mathieu\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/staging.ggba.swiss\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/de091cdfd7d8bce46f9b8b1cf9d868ab\"},\"headline\":\"EPFL software to enable secure data-sharing for hospitals\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-04-06T09:40:33+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-07-04T11:40:00+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/staging.ggba.swiss\/en\/epfl-software-to-enable-secure-data-sharing-for-hospitals\/\"},\"wordCount\":361,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/staging.ggba.swiss\/en\/epfl-software-to-enable-secure-data-sharing-for-hospitals\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/ggba.swiss\/app\/uploads\/2023\/06\/MedicalData-3.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Covid-19\",\"Software\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Tech\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/staging.ggba.swiss\/en\/epfl-software-to-enable-secure-data-sharing-for-hospitals\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/staging.ggba.swiss\/en\/epfl-software-to-enable-secure-data-sharing-for-hospitals\/\",\"name\":\"EPFL software to enable secure data-sharing for hospitals - Greater Geneva Bern area\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/staging.ggba.swiss\/en\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/staging.ggba.swiss\/en\/epfl-software-to-enable-secure-data-sharing-for-hospitals\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/staging.ggba.swiss\/en\/epfl-software-to-enable-secure-data-sharing-for-hospitals\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/ggba.swiss\/app\/uploads\/2023\/06\/MedicalData-3.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-04-06T09:40:33+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-07-04T11:40:00+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/staging.ggba.swiss\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/de091cdfd7d8bce46f9b8b1cf9d868ab\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/staging.ggba.swiss\/en\/epfl-software-to-enable-secure-data-sharing-for-hospitals\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/staging.ggba.swiss\/en\/epfl-software-to-enable-secure-data-sharing-for-hospitals\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/staging.ggba.swiss\/en\/epfl-software-to-enable-secure-data-sharing-for-hospitals\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/ggba.swiss\/app\/uploads\/2023\/06\/MedicalData-3.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/ggba.swiss\/app\/uploads\/2023\/06\/MedicalData-3.jpg\",\"width\":945,\"height\":430},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/staging.ggba.swiss\/en\/epfl-software-to-enable-secure-data-sharing-for-hospitals\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/ggba.swiss\/en\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"EPFL software to enable secure data-sharing for hospitals\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/staging.ggba.swiss\/en\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/staging.ggba.swiss\/en\/\",\"name\":\"Greater Geneva Bern area\",\"description\":\"\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/staging.ggba.swiss\/en\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/staging.ggba.swiss\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/de091cdfd7d8bce46f9b8b1cf9d868ab\",\"name\":\"mathieu\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/ggba.swiss\/en\/author\/mathieu\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"EPFL software to enable secure data-sharing for hospitals - Greater Geneva Bern area","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/staging.ggba.swiss\/en\/epfl-software-to-enable-secure-data-sharing-for-hospitals\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"EPFL software to enable secure data-sharing for hospitals - Greater Geneva Bern area","og_description":"The MedCo system aims to facilitate medical research on pathologies \u2014 such as cancer and infectious diseases \u2014 by enabling secure computations on decentralized data. After a year of intense cooperation with hospital IT and legal experts, MedCo has now been deployed across the university hospitals of Lausanne, Geneva, and Bern. First released in 2019 [&hellip;]","og_url":"https:\/\/staging.ggba.swiss\/en\/epfl-software-to-enable-secure-data-sharing-for-hospitals\/","og_site_name":"Greater Geneva Bern area","article_published_time":"2020-04-06T09:40:33+00:00","article_modified_time":"2023-07-04T11:40:00+00:00","og_image":[{"width":945,"height":430,"url":"https:\/\/staging.ggba.swiss\/app\/uploads\/2023\/06\/MedicalData-3.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"mathieu","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"mathieu","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/staging.ggba.swiss\/en\/epfl-software-to-enable-secure-data-sharing-for-hospitals\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/staging.ggba.swiss\/en\/epfl-software-to-enable-secure-data-sharing-for-hospitals\/"},"author":{"name":"mathieu","@id":"https:\/\/staging.ggba.swiss\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/de091cdfd7d8bce46f9b8b1cf9d868ab"},"headline":"EPFL software to enable secure data-sharing for hospitals","datePublished":"2020-04-06T09:40:33+00:00","dateModified":"2023-07-04T11:40:00+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/staging.ggba.swiss\/en\/epfl-software-to-enable-secure-data-sharing-for-hospitals\/"},"wordCount":361,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/staging.ggba.swiss\/en\/epfl-software-to-enable-secure-data-sharing-for-hospitals\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/ggba.swiss\/app\/uploads\/2023\/06\/MedicalData-3.jpg","keywords":["Covid-19","Software"],"articleSection":["Tech"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/staging.ggba.swiss\/en\/epfl-software-to-enable-secure-data-sharing-for-hospitals\/","url":"https:\/\/staging.ggba.swiss\/en\/epfl-software-to-enable-secure-data-sharing-for-hospitals\/","name":"EPFL software to enable secure data-sharing for hospitals - Greater Geneva Bern area","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/staging.ggba.swiss\/en\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/staging.ggba.swiss\/en\/epfl-software-to-enable-secure-data-sharing-for-hospitals\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/staging.ggba.swiss\/en\/epfl-software-to-enable-secure-data-sharing-for-hospitals\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/ggba.swiss\/app\/uploads\/2023\/06\/MedicalData-3.jpg","datePublished":"2020-04-06T09:40:33+00:00","dateModified":"2023-07-04T11:40:00+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/staging.ggba.swiss\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/de091cdfd7d8bce46f9b8b1cf9d868ab"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/staging.ggba.swiss\/en\/epfl-software-to-enable-secure-data-sharing-for-hospitals\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/staging.ggba.swiss\/en\/epfl-software-to-enable-secure-data-sharing-for-hospitals\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/staging.ggba.swiss\/en\/epfl-software-to-enable-secure-data-sharing-for-hospitals\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/ggba.swiss\/app\/uploads\/2023\/06\/MedicalData-3.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/ggba.swiss\/app\/uploads\/2023\/06\/MedicalData-3.jpg","width":945,"height":430},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/staging.ggba.swiss\/en\/epfl-software-to-enable-secure-data-sharing-for-hospitals\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/ggba.swiss\/en\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"EPFL software to enable secure data-sharing for hospitals"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/staging.ggba.swiss\/en\/#website","url":"https:\/\/staging.ggba.swiss\/en\/","name":"Greater Geneva Bern area","description":"","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/staging.ggba.swiss\/en\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/staging.ggba.swiss\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/de091cdfd7d8bce46f9b8b1cf9d868ab","name":"mathieu","url":"https:\/\/ggba.swiss\/en\/author\/mathieu\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ggba.swiss\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ggba.swiss\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ggba.swiss\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ggba.swiss\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ggba.swiss\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13420"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ggba.swiss\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16743,"href":"https:\/\/ggba.swiss\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13420\/revisions\/16743"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ggba.swiss\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ggba.swiss\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ggba.swiss\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ggba.swiss\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}