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Opinion: Federated learning: collaboration without compromise for health care research

Here's a new way to learn from massive collections of data while avoiding the privacy and other risks typically associated with sharing such information: federated learning.

What if we could learn from massive collections of data while avoiding the privacy and other risks typically associated with sharing such information?

The Mayo Clinic has taken a step toward making that possible with its announcement that the first venture of the Mayo Clinic Platform will use federated learning as a foundational technology of if its privacy model.

lets a network of participants collaboratively train algorithms on data while keeping each stakeholder’s

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