academic research

Truly collaborative research consortia without data sharing

Don't hold up your research breakthroughs due to complex data sharing agreements and transfers. Easily create federated research consortia with built-in governance controls.

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How Bitfount works

use cases

Interdisciplinary. Inter-organisational. International.

Trusted research environments

Next-generation collaborative research

Interdisciplinary, cross-border, cross-sector collaboration is critical to the next era of scientific breakthroughs. Bitfount’s federation layer unlocks compliant, seamless, scalable research consortia.

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Make cross-border, cross-discipline consortia a breeze

Built-in governance and privacy layers, and a no-code desktop experience enables all partners to start contributing, fast.

Validate the next generation of digital endpoints

Develop and evaluate the performance of digital biomarkers against real-world datasets which weren’t part of the training data.

Get the big picture with large-scale federated statistics

Go straight to the source for population-level insights. Bitfount’s low infrastructure requirements ensure no one is left out.

Tap into larger and more diverse datasets

Better data equals better models. And once published, easily monetise and make your models easy for others to use.

use cases

Connecting large data siloes for health data research

A federated network of Trusted Research Environments to enable safe analytics

By acting as the link within the Trusted Research Environment’s ecosystem, Bitfount enabled secure analyses by training and deploying of AI models.

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Frequently asked questions

Can Bitfount access my data?

No, Bitfount’s zero-trust architecture ensures Bitfount never receives data or analysis results. Analysis results are transferred between data custodians and data scientists end-to-end encrypted using encryption keys held by each party and not accessible to Bitfount. Read more here.

What will my Information Governance team think of this?

Information Governance and Legal teams love Bitfount since it removes the need for complex Data Sharing Agreements (DSA) and Material Transfer Agreements (MTA), and massively simplifies Data Protection Impact Assessments (DPIA). Bitfount is also fully GDPR, HIPAA and ISO27001 compliant. Visit our online Trust Centre here.

Do I need to be able to code?

No. Our desktop application has been designed to be operated without requiring any coding knowledge. This includes connecting datasets, joining projects, running tasks and accessing analysis results. Data scientists and algorithm developers can choose to interact with Bitfount via our python SDK.

Are there any hardware requirements?

There aren’t any specific requirements, however AI analysis at scale can be compute-intensive and will run more efficiently, especially for image analysis, if you have access to a machine (physical or virtual) with a GPU. Suitable devices include any Apple silicon model, or a Windows or Linux machine with an Nvidia GPU. Not sure if you have the right setup? Reach out to us at support@bitfount.com for guidance.

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