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Data Network

A secure, federated network connecting respiratory data owners across Canada

Trusted – Secure – Federated Privacy

How it Works?

Privacy-first design to enable collaboration while keeping data ownership and secure. Our governing principles are the 5 safes framework and FAIR principles.

Keep Ownership

Data never leaves the owner’s secure cloud storage. Compute is brought to the data, not the other way around

Secure Analysis in TRE

Approved researchers run approved projects analyses inside a Trusted Research Environment, fully encrypted and third-party audited 

Insights Returned

Only aggregated, de-identified insights are returned to the network for discovery and research 

The Five Safes


  • Safe data: data is treated to protect any confidentiality concerns.
  • Safe projects: research projects are approved by data owners for the public good.
  • Safe people: researchers are trained and authorized to use data safely.
  • Safe settings: a SecureLab environment prevents unauthorized use.
  • Safe outputs: screened and approved outputs that are non-disclosive.

Data Owner

If you have a dataset that can help other respiratory research projects you can securely share it through the network

Researcher

Undertake the analysis of your research project in our TRE and you can request access to the datasets in our catalogue