NFDI4Health Local Data Hubs for Finding and Accessing Health Data Making Distributed Data Accessible Through a SEEK-Based Platform

Abstract

To support federated data structuring and sharing for sensitive health data from clinical trial, epidemiological and public health studies in the context of the German National Research Data Infrastructure for Personal Health Data (NFDI4Health), we have developed Local Data Hubs (LDHs) based on the FAIRDOM-SEEK platform. Those LDHs connect to the German Central Health Study Hub (CSH) to make the health data searchable and findable. This decentralised approach supports researchers to make health studies with their data FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable), and at the same time fully preserves data protection for sensitive data.