Towards an integrated health research process: A cloud-based approach

Today, health research and health care generate a steadily increasing amount of data. Making these available for secondary use cases is essential for efficiency gains in health research, e.g. by reducing time-and costs-intensive acquisition of data. In this contribution, we introduce our SAHRA software platform enabling reproducible research, e.g. by combining multiple data sources, performing data de-identification, and content filtering. We define an innovative research process combining retrospective and prospective research for the first time. Thus, authorized users, e.g. clinical researchers, are able to gain access through our system relevant research data and to perform interactive analyses. As a result, existing sensitive health data is securely transformed into de-identified research data, which can be used to improve future health research.