Gemelli Research Facility Generator Real World Data is developing a software platform and a wide range of solution and services for digital healthcare, based on Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, aimed at research and clinical practice, with potential impact in industrial sectors (such as pharmaceutical, insuretech, electromedical devices and engineering), leveraging financial support of Research and Innovation (R&I) Fund, Axis II – Action II.3 delivered from Italian Ministry for University and Research and European Union.
Based on growth path achieved from the lab in advanced data science techniques, and hands-on experience of applied techniques in many areas of medicine, the development of such digital platform leverages primarily the knowledge and data assets of Policlinico Gemelli, a clinical center of excellence with very high volumes of patients/care practices in all domains of healthcare. Moreover, Generator Real World Data lab is highly integrated within the hospital; this represents a ‘unique’ which allows to address very timely frontiers topics and research questions raised from clinical teams, and effectively gather information and evidence based large volumes. The combination of these enabling factors lead to fast development of prototypes which are then texted and exploited from the medical counterparts, then scale up to implementation and integration into the AI platform, which is the ultimate technological goals of the initiative.
This innovation path, which leverages technology as an enabling factor to improve quality of care and therapeutic pathways, is aimed at bringing primarily concrete benefits to individual patients and community. Therefore, the research program is also focused on dissemination, engagement of citizenship, and transparency on how such advanced initiatives make use of data and patients’ experience.
In selected areas, the impact of research projects may lead to exploitation patterns and involve industrial partners. Such prototypes and pilot projects are executed with strict compliance to ethical standards, research protocols and protection of individual privacy.
Real World Data platform will include also process and technologies which strengthen certification and ethical adherence for data science methods, privacy and secure data management. Therefore, techniques such as blockchain, distributed learning and privacy-preserving sandbox will be integrated into the platform.
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