How Oncoshot Built a Federated Data Platform on AWS to Accelerate Clinical Trials

The article summarizes how the company Oncoshot built a federated data platform on AWS to enable secure data exchange and accelerate clinical trials.

Specifically, the article covers:

• Key challenges in clinical trials like patient recruitment, data quality, resource constraints, and stakeholder collaboration
• Oncoshot's solution of a federated architecture where data remains in hospitals' AWS environments while aggregated insights are shared with pharma/CRO users
• How federated units with Oncoshot's matching algorithm are deployed in hospitals' AWS accounts using Amazon EKS and Amazon RDS
• The process of generating matching insights without exposing patient data to match patients to clinical trials
• Benefits of Oncoshot's platform like faster trial feasibility, reduced delays and costs, while ensuring data privacy and security