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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 21, 2026

Medical Imaging in TREs: DICOM De-identification Guide

Medical imaging data can be used safely inside a Trusted Research Environment (TRE) when two things happen together: every DICOM file is…

9 min read
Oct 20, 2026

FHIR vs HL7 v2 vs CDA: Interoperability Standards Explained

HL7 v2, CDA, and FHIR are three generations of Health Level Seven (HL7) standards for exchanging health information. HL7 v2 is a pipe-delimited…

8 min read
Oct 19, 2026

Social Determinants of Health Data: Sources and Linkage

Social determinants of health (SDOH) data describe the conditions in which people live, work, and age, such as income, education, housing, food…

8 min read
Oct 18, 2026

External Validation of Clinical AI Models Across Sites

External validation of a clinical AI model means testing it on data from sites, populations, or time periods that played no part in its development…

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Oct 17, 2026

External Control Arms From Real-World Data: Methods Guide

An external control arm is a comparison group built from patients outside the trial, usually drawn from real-world data such as electronic health…

8 min read
Oct 16, 2026

Training Foundation Models on Health Data Without Moving It

You can train or adapt a foundation model on health data without centralizing it by sending the model to each data custodian, training locally inside…

9 min read
Oct 15, 2026

GA4GH Standards Explained: Passports, Beacon, DRS & WES

The Global Alliance for Genomics and Health (GA4GH) standards are open technical specifications that let genomic and health data systems work…

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Oct 14, 2026

Zero Trust Architecture for Trusted Research Environments

Zero trust architecture for a Trusted Research Environment (TRE) means that no user, device, network, workload, or output is trusted by default, even…

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Oct 13, 2026

Patient and Public Involvement in TRE Governance

Patient and public involvement (PPI) in Trusted Research Environment governance means giving patients and members of the public a formal, resourced…

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Oct 12, 2026

What Is Dynamic Consent in Biobanking? A Guide

Dynamic consent in biobanking is a digital, ongoing model of consent in which participants use a secure online interface to see how their samples and…

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Oct 11, 2026

Health Research Metadata Standards: DCAT & HealthDCAT-AP

Health research metadata standards are shared vocabularies for describing datasets so that researchers can find them, judge whether they fit a study…

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Oct 10, 2026

What Are Computable Phenotypes? Sharing Across Sites

A computable phenotype is a precise, machine-executable definition of a clinical condition or characteristic, such as "adults with type 2 diabetes"…

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