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Federalist principles for healthcare data networks

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Applying federalist principles to networked health record data could facilitate realization of the potential of shared health data.

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Figure 1: A self-organizing federated data research network.

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Mandl, K., Kohane, I. Federalist principles for healthcare data networks. Nat Biotechnol 33, 360–363 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt.3180

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