CLINOM-X

More and more biomedical data is being generated and collected from large biobanks, electronic medical records, imaging devices, sensors and multiple wearables. At the same time, the cost of investigating "omics" such as the genome, microbiome or metabolome is steadily falling, heralding the massive availability of such data in the near future.

Fundamental and applied research on clinical data today faces the difficulty of providing access, from outside a hospital, to structured and de-identified data sets concerning a cohort of patients. CLINOM-X addresses this challenge by creating an IT infrastructure for the decentralized management of clinomic data for research, built on modern, secure IT standards.

"By clinomic data we mean the multimodal combination of clinical, biological, behavioural, neurophysiological, anatomopathological, multi-omic, and imaging data."

This infrastructure serves as a technological foundation to give authorized external access to hospital datasets. Other projects related to a particular medical discipline — especially those aiming to exploit these data for analysis or artificial intelligence — can rely on CLINOM-X as their technological base, notably within the ERDF MedReSyst portfolio.

This project is co-financed by Wallonia and the European Union through the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), with a total budget of €780,229.00 — of which €312,091.60 is financed by Europe and €468,137.40 by Wallonia.