A six-tiered governance framework for federated health data, with varying levels of data access and sharing, is proposed to facilitate the use of health data held within more than one secure environment, while preserving privacy.
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S.T., D.F., R.A.L., F.T. and E.S. declare funding from Dementias Platform UK 2–Integrated Dementia Experimental Medicine (MR/T033371/1). R.F. and S.T. declare funding from SeRP and all organizations and research programs using the SeRP platform. S.T. declares funding from DAREUK TREFX and TELEPORT focusing on federated workloads and data access. All other authors declare no competing interests.
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Torabi, F., Squires, E., Orton, C. et al. A common framework for health data governance standards. Nat Med 30, 26–29 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41591-023-02686-w
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