The 4th HealthTech Observer (HTO) Workshop took place recently at the La Fe Healthcare Research Institute (La Fe IIS), and it served as a showcase for presenting OmicSpace, a groundbreaking project that is creating a biomedical federated data space for clinical and healthcare research in Spain.

OmicSpace is a continuation of the earlier TARTAGLIA project, which was led by GMV, and which demonstrated the potential for using artificial intelligence (AI) with federated data networks applied to research. Now, with the La Fe Healthcare Research Institute taking the lead, and with collaboration from leading Spanish institutions, the new project is emerging as a driver of transformation on the path towards personalized medicine.

An institutional project with an impact throughout Europe

OmicSpace securely integrates clinical, genomic, and biobank information, in order to transform complex biomedical data into applicable clinical knowledge. The project is following European standards and applying FAIR principles (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) for the data involved. The aim of the project is to promote secure and ethical sharing of information among a variety of nodes established in Spain, as a way of accelerating diagnostics and personalized treatments.