Imagine you store your medical records in the cloud, but the company running the cloud can read everything — your diagnoses, your prescriptions, all of it. ASCLEPIOS built encryption tools that let hospitals use cloud services without ever exposing patient data, even to the cloud provider itself. Think of it like a safety deposit box where the bank holds it but can never open it. They also made it possible for researchers to run statistics on encrypted medical data without ever seeing any individual patient's information.
Healthcare organizations want to move patient data to the cloud for efficiency and collaboration, but current cloud solutions require trusting the provider with unencrypted data — creating massive privacy and compliance risks. As the project states: once data hits the cloud unencrypted or with provider-known keys, data privacy becomes an illusion. This blocks cloud adoption in healthcare and limits cross-border medical research.
The team built the ASCLEPIOS Integrated Platform — a cloud-based encrypted healthcare system using advanced cryptographic methods including privacy-preserving computation. They delivered early and final platform releases with full documentation and engineer guidelines, plus 3 near-production quality demonstrators running real healthcare applications at 3 European hospitals. The platform also includes medical device integrity verification tools.
If you are a cloud provider serving hospitals and clinics — this project developed an integrated encrypted platform that lets you process and store patient data without ever seeing it in plain text. Tested with 3 leading European hospitals across 3 real-life applications, it removes the biggest barrier to healthcare cloud adoption: the trust gap around data privacy.
If you are a hospital network sharing patient records across sites and worried about data breaches — ASCLEPIOS built a platform where medical data stays encrypted end-to-end, even during processing. The system was demonstrated at near-production quality with 3 European hospitals, and includes tools to verify the integrity of medical devices before use.
If you are a health analytics firm that needs to run calculations on patient datasets but cannot access raw personal data due to GDPR — this project created privacy-preserving computation tools. Healthcare practitioners and researchers can calculate statistics on medical data without decrypting individual records, built and tested across an 11-partner consortium in 8 countries.
The project received EUR 4,840,000 in EU funding across 11 partners. Licensing terms are not specified in available project data. Contact the coordinator at the University of Westminster to discuss commercial licensing or integration pricing.
The platform was tested with 3 leading European hospitals in near-production quality demonstrators across 8 countries. The architecture is cloud-based by design, which supports scaling. However, moving from pilot to full production deployment would require additional engineering and compliance work.
As an EU-funded RIA project, IP is typically retained by the partners who generated it, subject to the consortium agreement. The consortium includes 3 SMEs and 3 industry partners who may hold commercial rights to specific components. Contact the coordinator for licensing details.
The entire platform was designed around privacy preservation — data stays encrypted even on the cloud provider's servers. The privacy-preserving computation feature specifically addresses GDPR requirements for processing health data. Formal regulatory certification would need to be confirmed with the consortium.
The project ran from December 2018 to March 2022 and produced both early and final platform releases with installation and utilization guidelines. Based on available project data, the final release includes engineer documentation, but specific integration timelines depend on existing infrastructure.
Three real-life near-production quality healthcare applications were demonstrated on the final version of the ASCLEPIOS Integrated Platform, involving 3 leading European hospitals. The project also reported on operation experiences from the cloud testbed.
The project closed in March 2022. The consortium included 3 SMEs who may continue commercial development. Based on available project data, ongoing support arrangements are not specified — contact the University of Westminster coordinator for current status.
The ASCLEPIOS consortium brings together 11 partners across 8 European countries, mixing 5 universities with 3 industry players and 3 research organizations. With 3 SMEs (27% industry ratio), the project has a moderate commercial orientation — enough to ground the technology in market needs but still heavily research-driven. The University of Westminster (UK) leads coordination, while the geographic spread across Cyprus, Germany, Greece, Finland, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, and the UK signals broad European relevance. For a business buyer, the 3 hospital demonstrators are the most compelling signal: real healthcare institutions tested this in near-production conditions, not just in a lab.
The University of Westminster (UK) coordinated ASCLEPIOS. SciTransfer can help identify the right contact person and facilitate an introduction.
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