Implementing a Nordic-Baltic Federated Health Data Network: a case report
<|reference_start|>Implementing a Nordic-Baltic Federated Health Data Network: a case report: Background: Centralized collection and processing of healthcare data across national borders pose significant challenges, including privacy concerns, data heterogeneity and legal barriers. To address some of these challenges, we formed an interdisciplinary consortium to develop a feder-ated health data network, comprised of six institutions across five countries, to facilitate Nordic-Baltic cooperation on secondary use of health data. The objective of this report is to offer early insights into our experiences developing this network. Methods: We used a mixed-method ap-proach, combining both experimental design and implementation science to evaluate the factors affecting the implementation of our network. Results: Technically, our experiments indicate that the network functions without significant performance degradation compared to centralized simu-lation. Conclusion: While use of interdisciplinary approaches holds a potential to solve challeng-es associated with establishing such collaborative networks, our findings turn the spotlight on the uncertain regulatory landscape playing catch up and the significant operational costs.<|reference_end|>
@article{chomutare2024implementing,
    title={Implementing a Nordic-Baltic Federated Health Data Network: a case
  report},
    author={Taridzo Chomutare, Aleksandar Babic, Laura-Maria Peltonen, Silja
  Elunurm, Peter Lundberg, Arne J"onsson, Emma Eneling, Ciprian-Virgil
  Gerstenberger, Troels Siggaard, Raivo Kolde, Oskar Jerdhaf, Martin Hansson,
  Alexandra Makhlysheva, Miroslav Muzny, Erik Ylip"a"a, S{o}ren Brunak and
  Hercules Dalianis},
    journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.17865},
    year={2024},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    eprint={2409.17865},
    primaryClass={cs.CY cs.AI cs.CL cs.LG}
}