Harnessing the Power of Biomedical Data While Protecting Privacy

With millions of people’s biomedical data at hand, solutions to long-standing medical puzzles are tantalizingly close. Such large amounts of data are enabling researchers to learn more about specific diseases—even very rare ones—as well as how diseases present differently across individuals, which could inform precision medicine efforts.

But for all their promise, these data come with the responsibility to protect people's privacy.