Secure Computing Enclaves Move Digital Medicine Forward

By providing a safe, secure environment, novel approaches enable health care innovators to share data without opening the door to snoopers and thieves.John Halamka, M.D., president, Mayo Clinic Platform, and Paul Cerrato, senior research analyst and communications specialist, Mayo Clinic Platform, wrote this article.We know that bringing together AI algorithms and data in ways that preserve privacy and intellectual property is one of the keys to delivering the next generation of clinical decision support. But meeting that challenge requires health care innovators to look to other innovators who themselves have created unique cybersecurity solutions. Among these “Think outside the box” solutions are products and services from vendors like TripleBlind, Verily, Beekeeper.AI/Microsoft, Terra, and Nvidia.The concept of secure computing enclaves has been around for many years. Apple created its secure enclave, a subsystem built into itssystems on a chip (SoC), which in turn is “an integrated circuit that incorporates multiple components into a single chip,” including an application processor, secure enclave, and other coprocessors. Apple explains that “The Secure Enclave is isolated from the main processor to provide an extra layer of security and is designed to kee p sensitive user data secure even when the Application Processor kernel becomes compromised. It follows the same design principles as the SoC does—a boot ROM to establish a hardware root of trust, an AE...
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