TELEPORT: connecting big data to users at light speed

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The UK has a wealth of electronic health record data. This data is used by researchers in a multitude of ways including studying the COVID pandemic, understanding disease, and improving the many services the NHS provides. Because data is generated and held in many places, highly-secure computer environments – called Trusted Research Environments (TREs) – have been developed to store data coming from the NHS and other public organisations.Often researchers want to study data from the whole of the UK. One way of bringing all of this data together is called data federation – a process that has very specific approvals associated with it. The TELEPORTER project will explore how to make data federation much simpler, but just as safe and secure, by automating the federation process. A new novel model of pop-up TREs will be demonstrated by federating personal health data from Wales and Scotland. A key part of this work will be to explore how similar but different approvals processes can be brought together so that the data controllers – the people who are ultimately responsible for the data – can have the confidence it is being used appropriately and securely by researchers and in line with the use cases they have approved.