UBITECH has participated in the kick-off meeting of the SAGE-CARE research project in Darmstadt, Germany (February 12-13, 2015), officially started on December 1st, 2014. The project is funded by European Commission under Horizon 2020 Programme (Grant Agreement No. 644186) and spans on the period December 2014 – November 2017. The focus of SAGE-CARE is the semantically integrating, linking and analyzing genomic, research and Electronic Health Records data for cancer management.
Within SAGE-CARE, UBITECH aims to solve the privacy dilemma found at typical large scale data storage and management systems wherein end-users lose (most probably) control of their data, by encrypting sensitive data before it is stored, focusing on data protection in terms of confidentiality and avoiding any unauthorized information retrieval. To guarantee a high level of data protection, an innovative encryption scheme is adopted so as to encrypt directly the top secret and confidential data. Context-based access control makes the misuse of terminals for unauthorized data access impossible. In particular, as SAGE-CARE focuses on creating a holistic informatics platform for rapidly integrating genomic sequences, electronic health records (EHRs) and research repositories to enable personalised medicine strategies for malignant melanoma treatment, UBITECH intends to realize a secure medical data space, which enables the browsing of anonymized patients’ clinical care data and information sources and EHRs, in a standardized and homogenized way, creating a private, secure Linked Data space of semantically interconnected medical data and resources.
