LSX

Linkcare Smart Exchange researched, designed and implemented a proof of concept for an innovative system based on Artificial Intelligence (AI) to prevent disclosure of personal data when sharing medical information between Europe and China. LSX will apply the data protection regulatory frameworks of both geographies.

The resulting proof of concept (TRL 4) used Big Data technology and Expert Systems involving Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Machine Learning (ML) to identify items that refer to personal data in English (written in Western characters) or Chinese (written in Western characters or Chinese). These items were then replaced by anonymous ones. To provide state-of-the-art medical services, Silver Mountain (the Chinese partner of the project) connected connect its hospitals with a clinical knowledge network called “China-Europe International Hospital” (CEIH). This allows the clinicians in this medical network to work and share diagnoses and treatment options within the existing legal frameworks in the EU and China, thus guaranteeing compliance with the data protection regulations of each region.

Linkcare-LSX allows hospitals in Catalonia that participate in the CEIH network to offer their clinical services to Chinese partners.

This project received support and funding from the “Agència per a la Competitivitat de l’Empresa, ACCIÓ”, through the 2019 call “Nuclis de recerca industrial i development experimental de component internacional”.