Periodic Reporting for period 4 - FeatureCloud (Privacy preserving federated machine learning and blockchaining for reduced cyber risks in a world of distributed healthcare)
Reporting period: 2022-07-01 to 2023-12-31
• Improved security of health and care services, data and infrastructures: By addressing the evident roadblock in medical data mining – the need for centralised data mining for the development of high-quality AI tools but distributed clinical data – we improved the cyber security of computational health care services, patient data, and communication infrastructure. FeatureCloud’s federated machine learning and privacy-enhancing technology engines erased the necessity to share sensitive data via a cloud.
• Less risk of data privacy breaches caused by cyberattacks: FeatureCloud significantly reduced the risk of data privacy breaches by cyberattacks on health cloud services or communication channels between hospital and cloud. Instead of bringing the data to the AI, we bring the AI to the data.
• Increased patient trust and safety: FeatureCloud technology ensures that no sensitive data is exchanged during the training of AI models. This strategy increases patient trust and safety significantly. The FeatureCloud platform complies with the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and Network and Information Security Directive (NISD) policies, respecting the criteria for software-supported medical devices of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) and the US-American Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
2) FeatureCloud furthermore contributed to the following most significant impacts not mentioned in the work programme:
• The novel FeatureCloud technology will create new market opportunities: FeatureCloud's App Store for client-side machine learning tools already had an enormous impact worldwide and will foster pan-European business development because of a huge emerging market in privacy-aware machine learning.
• European society will benefit from new levels of personalised medicine, new possibilities for research of complex diseases like cancer, and lower costs of medical research: FeatureCloud enables open science without boundaries, across domains and pan-European, generating new opportunities for research and the development of tools for personalised medicine as FeatureCloud apps address current privacy-, ethics-, and security-restrictions at the core. FeatureCloud thus lays the foundation to improve the overall quality of medical care while slowing down increasing healthcare costs in Europe and beyond.
Platform & App Store: https://featurecloud.ai/