Nantes University Hospital
Accelerate research ethically and in compliance with regulatory constraints
Challenge
The Nantes University Hospital has a priority issue within its Data Clinic: absolute respect for the confidentiality due to the patients at the origin of the data. Its data processing practices must guarantee it. However, the healthcare institution wants to use its data to carry out analyses, clinical trials or even train AI software...
The aim? Enable and accelerate health research projects in an ethical manner while respecting European regulations (GDPR) and patient privacy.
Solution
Octopize's personal data anonymization solution has freed up the exploitation of sensitive data from the Nantes University Hospital Data Clinic. Indeed, Octopize's data anonymization software, avatar, generates synthetic and anonymous data based on the original data, which allows scientific research on these data. The Nantes University Hospital was thus able to use its patient data for secondary uses without new consent, thanks to the ability of the avatar method to store statistical properties of the original dataset as well as its variability without compromising the privacy of the patients behind the data.
Setting up
Anonymization service carried out by Octopize then deployment of the software solution internally (on-premise)
Maintaining statistical quality & utility
- Avatar data was used for the publication of 6 scientific articles because it reproduced the results of the original data.
ROI
- Levier politics of data management
- Contribution to the reproducibility Of Science
- Acceleration of researching Collaborative
- Tool of Compliance In research
- Tool of strategy industrial and software collaboration
Additional resource
Professor Pierre-Antoine Gourraud exclusively reveals the content of our scientific paper published in Nature Digital Medicine in partnership with Nantes University, CHU de Nantes, INSERM, Centrale Nantes. Explore the avatar anonymization method, with:
🔹 The fundamental ideas of paper
🔹 The innovative nature of the method
🔹 The academic role of our partners
🔹 Lessons learned from this work
« Il n'y a plus de raison de manipuler des données de santé identifiantes pour faire des analyses statistiques.» - Pr Pierre-Antoine Gourraud, Pr. Faculté de Médecine @Nantes Université, Praticien hospitalier, @CHU de Nantes
6 scientific publications made with avatar data
