CHALLENGE
How can we enable secure access to sensitive, clinical genomic data?
Working with sensitive health data has historically been challenging. To preserve patient privacy, much of the data has been securely stored within institutional siloed environments that are unavailable to researchers. Trusted Research Environments (TREs) are highly secure computing environments that are a solution to this problem - they provide remote access to health data for approved research by authorised users. Lifebit is deploying the TREs that house the clinical genomic data of NIHR Cambridge BRC, a research organisation, and Genomics England, a public-sector clinical research endeavor. However, NIHR Cambridge BRC and Genomics England wanted a way to effectively collaborate with each other.