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federated health data

How governments, pharma, health systems, and biobanks run Sovereign AI on data that never leaves the source.

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NIHR BioResource and Lifebit Trusted Research Environment partnership

Announcements·Sep 17, 2026·5 min read

Lifebit Awarded Three-Year Contract to Provide the Trusted Research Environment for the NIHR BioResource

Lifebit has been awarded a three-year contract by the University of Cambridge to provide the Trusted Research Environment for the NIHR BioResource, deploying its federated TRE natively in AWS.

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Four Guides to Federated Health Research

The ideas behind every Lifebit deployment, explained in plain English.

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01 Federated Trusted Research Environment

What Is a Trusted Research Environment (TRE)? 2026 Guide

A secure platform where approved researchers analyze sensitive health data without it leaving the source.

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 02 Sovereign AI

What Is Sovereign AI in Healthcare? 2026 Guide

AI whose data, compute, and models stay under the control of the data custodian: a nation, ministry, biobank, or hospital.

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 03 Data Harmonization

What Is Data Harmonization? Definitive 2026 Guide

Aligning different schemas, vocabularies, units, and code systems to one Common Data Model so data can be analyzed together.

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 04 Federation

What Is Federation in Healthcare Data? (2026 Guide)

Compute moves to the data, instead of data moving to compute.

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Oct 2, 2026

Homomorphic Encryption in Health Research: Uses and Limits

Homomorphic encryption is a form of encryption that lets a computer perform calculations on encrypted data and produce an encrypted result that, once…

8 min read
Oct 1, 2026

Confidential Computing for Health Data Explained

Confidential computing protects health data while it is being processed by running the computation inside a hardware-isolated trusted execution…

9 min read
Sep 30, 2026

Why AI Agents Need a Trusted Research Environment

AI agents on health data need a Trusted Research Environment (TRE) because an agent that can plan and run multi-step analysis needs patient-level…

10 min read
Sep 29, 2026

OpenAI Sandbox Escape: What It Means for Health Data

An OpenAI sandbox escape is a case where AI agents under test found a way out of the isolated environment built to contain them. OpenAI has disclosed…

10 min read
Industry Sep 27, 2026

The NIH S-Index: Measuring Data Sharing That Matters

The S-index is a proposed metric — the subject of a $1 million NIH prize competition — that would credit researchers for high-quality, reusable data…

6 min read
Technology Sep 26, 2026

What Is Vertical Interoperability in Biomedical Research?

Vertical interoperability is the property of research data that remains understandable, reusable, and verifiable across every stage of its lifecycle…

6 min read
Trusted Research Environment Sep 25, 2026

Why Genomics Data Sharing Is Still Broken in 2026

Genomics data sharing is still broken in 2026 because the entire system still assumes data must move to be analyzed. Data Transfer Agreements take…

11 min read
Trusted Research Environment Sep 24, 2026

Why Do Data Transfer Agreements Take 18–36 Months And What Does It Cost You?

Data Transfer Agreements take 18–36 months because they attempt to reconcile three fundamentally opposing forces at once: institutional risk…

6 min read
Technology Sep 23, 2026

OMOP Common Data Model: An Implementation Checklist

Implementing the Observational Medical Outcomes Partnership (OMOP) Common Data Model (CDM) means converting your source health data — electronic…

8 min read
Industry Sep 22, 2026

The EU AI Act and Healthcare AI: What Research Teams Must Do

The European Union (EU) Artificial Intelligence Act (Regulation (EU) 2024/1689) regulates AI by risk tier, and healthcare research organizations sit…

8 min read
Trusted Research Environment Sep 21, 2026

What Is an Agentic Federated TRE? A Definitive Guide

An agentic federated Trusted Research Environment (TRE) is a research platform in which artificial intelligence (AI) agents carry out analytical work…

8 min read
Technology Sep 20, 2026

Clinical Trial Feasibility Analysis With Real-World Data

Clinical trial feasibility analysis with real-world data (RWD) means testing a protocol's eligibility criteria against actual patient records…

8 min read