KONFIDO is a H2020 project that aims to leverage proven tools and procedures, as well as novel approaches and cutting edge technology, in view of creating a scalable and holistic paradigm for secure inner- and cross-border exchange, storage and overall handling of healthcare data in a legal and ethical way both at national and European levels.
The following scenario illustrates a typical use of KONFIDO’s framework:
Kenneth is a 65-year-old citizen from Copenhagen, Denmark, who suffers from Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) and chronic heart failure as comorbid condition. Kenneth is planning to spend 10 days in Barcelona, Spain, with his family but is concerned about a potential exacerbation. His doctor informs him that thanks to the technology developed in KONFIDO, which has been deployed nationally in both Denmark and Spain, he can securely grant access to healthcare professionals in Barcelona to view part of his medical record.
In this case, Kenneth and the healthcare professionals in Barcelona can authenticate themselves with their national issued eID. Using KONFIDO’s novel security mechanisms, Kenneth can be confident that data generated from any potential clinical intervention in Barcelona, including data coming from the use of a self-management mHealth application, will be securely transmitted and registered to his medical record in Denmark. This information will also be securely shared with the Danish specialist that is taking care of Kenneth, who can follow-up the incident.
Sergiu Carpov from CEA together with colleagues from KU Leuven and Inpher Sarl participated and obtained the first prize on track 2 "Secure Genotype Imputation using Homomorphic Encryption" of the IDASH Genome Privacy Challenge. The challenge was to predict 250.000 genome SNPs on HE encrypted data with highest accuracy score and smallest execution time. CEAs solution did it in under 3 seconds!
The fourth KONFIDO newsletter has been published here.
Check out the final outcomes and news of the project, interviews from our WP7 and WP8 Leaders and more!
The 8th, and final, plenary meeting of the KONFIDO project took place in Naples, Italy, on September 16-18, in conjunction with the KONFIDO Final end-user workshop. Project partners from EXUS, Time Lex, Fondazione Santobono Pausilipon onlus, Telbios, Centre for Research and Technology Hellas (CERTH), IDIBAPS, Commissariat a l’ Energie Atomique et Aux Energies Alternatives (CEA), Eulambia Advanced Technologies, Bit4id, Consorzio Interuniversitario Nazionale Per L’Informatica (CINI), all met together to discuss the validation and evaluation of the KONFIDO outcomes and schedule that last set of actions towards the end of the project.
KONFIDO's paper on "Comprehensive user requirements engineering methodology for secure and interoperable health data exchange" that has been published in BMC Medical Informatics was shortlisted as a best paper candidate for the Clinical Information Systems section of the IMIA Yearbook 2019, among more than 1000 papers!
The paper can be found here.
