Manages research via the cloud
OffPrem is a part of a larger project called Premise. This project will bring open and private research into the healthcare industry. Starting with research on COVID-19. Open refers to publically available research processes and results; private refers to mathematically guaranteed privacy for individual patients and hospitals.
OffPrem is a cloud-based deployment that manages the research across healthcare providers. It controls the parameters of experiments being run on distributed workers at individual providers. OnPrem is the on-premise deployment of a worker at an individual provider. So, there is one OffPrem deployment in the cloud, and as many OnPrem deployments as there are participating providers.
First, do no harm.
We must protect the privacy of our patients. We promise - mathematically - that patient privacy will be protected.
Second, share knowledge.
We can all go further if we build off each other. We make our research processes and results publicly available.
Third, find truth.
Only after we protect patient privacy and share our knowledge do we strive for the most accurate research.
We designed an architecture with two main components: OnPrem to be hosted on a dedicated hardware box within each hospital, and OffPrem to be hosted on the cloud to manage research.
We use diagrams.net to create up-to-date versions of the system architecture. View it here. Only contributors added to the Medley Health organization are able to edit the document.