Terry Fox Research Institute

$49,000,000.00 CAD

≈ $1.18 for every person in Canada ≈ 633 Canadians' average pay for a year
Department
Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada
Program
SIF Stream4- Demonstration
Recipient country
Canada
Fiscal year
2019-2020
Agreement period
May 29, 2019 – March 31, 2035
Reference
ic:033-2020-2021-Q2-812962

Published purpose

This project is pan-Canadian initiative seeking to build, integrate, and deploy technology and policy solutions (the Platform) to overcome the key challenge in healthcare innovation: the inability to find, access, process, and re-use medical data. It seeks to leverage federated machine learning to enable big data analytics in healthcare

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This project is a pan-Canadian initiative to build and deploy technology and policy solutions that enable secure access and reuse of medical data, using federated machine learning for healthcare analytics.

Category: Health Primarily funds activity in Canada

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