Adherence
Secure multi-party computation (MPC) enables the linkage of patient data across different hospitals for research purposes without violating privacy regulations, allowing for accurate assessment of hospital transfer rates.
This paper is primarily for researchers and healthcare administrators. It demonstrates that advanced privacy-preserving technology (MPC) can be used to link patient data across hospitals, enabling more accurate research on patient outcomes and behaviors, such as hospital transfers.
MPC enables privacy-preserving linkage of surgeries across different hospitals... allowing analyses on the collectively processed data without exposing individual-level information to researchers or participating hospitals.
Why this rating
The study successfully applied MPC to nearly 100,000 records, demonstrating its viability in a real-world, large-scale setting.
Source
Hospital Transfer Between Primary and Secondary Metabolic Bariatric Surgery in The Netherlands: A Cross-sectional Multi-party Computation Analysis of Frequency and Associated Factors
Floris F. E. Bruinsma et al. · Obesity Surgery · 2025
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