In the digital healthcare era, it is of the utmost importance to harness medical information
scattered across healthcare institutions to support in-depth data analysis and achieve …

Clinical research is on the threshold of a new era in which electronic health records (EHR s)
are gaining an important novel supporting role. Whilst EHR s used for routine clinical care …

Due to the pervasiveness of always connected devices, large amounts of heterogeneous
data are continuously being collected. Beyond the benefits that accrue for the users, there …

Mining health data can lead to faster medical decisions, improvement in the quality of
treatment, disease prevention, and reduced cost, and it drives innovative solutions within the …

Electronic health records (EHRs) are increasingly employed to maintain, store and share
varied types of patient data. The data can also be utilized for various research purposes …

The exponential growth of collected, processed, and shared microdata has given rise to
concerns about individuals' privacy. As a result, laws and regulations have emerged to …

The advancement of data communication technologies promotes widespread data collection
and transmission in various application domains, thereby expanding big data significantly …

In big data applications, data privacy is one of the most concerned issues because
processing large-scale privacy-sensitive data sets often requires computation resources …

The sharing of sensitive personal data has become a core element of biomedical research.
To protect privacy, a broad spectrum of techniques must be implemented, including data …

Collaboration and data sharing have become core elements of biomedical research.
Especially when sensitive data from distributed sources are linked, privacy threats have to …