Context

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.

On the other hand, 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 of this hospital.

Goal

The aim of the project is to create an IT infrastructure for decentralized management of clinomic data for research, based on modern, secure IT standards.

By clinomic data we mean the multimodal combination of clinical, biological, behavioral, neurophysiological, anatomopathological, multi-omic (i.e. genomic, transcriptomic, proteomics and metabolomics), and imaging data.

This infrastructure will serve as a technological foundation to give access from outside the hospital to datasets.

Other projects related to a particular medical discipline and which aim to exploit these data for analysis or artificial intelligence will be able to rely on Clinom-X. Clinom-X will notably serve as a technological base for other projects in the MedReSyst. portfolio.

Users

Clinom-X is intended for hospital services, developing IT tools for collectionand the management of multimodal research datasets concerning cohorts of patients of these services.

At the global hospital level, Clinom-X will offer a single dashboard about all the datasets collected by the various hospital services.

Institutions external to the hospital such as research services in university or corporate R&D units which have a “link of research” authorizing them to access this de-identified data after a rigorous legal and ethical validation.

Funding

Clinom-X is part of the WAL-IMAGIN portfolio with a financial support is provided by:

WalEurope, a collaboration between the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) and Wallonia

“En Mieux”, a regional initiative to promote research and innovation

Development

The Clinomx-Project is developed at the UCLouvain university (Belgium), in the ICTEAM research institute.