An intelligent data ecosystem for rare cancers

IDEA4RC aims at developing an IT infrastructure to facilitate the sharing and re-use of health data among clinical centers to promote research on rare cancers and improve patients’ access to high quality care. Our challenge is building a new tool to overcome interoperability issues and make it easier to comply with privacy regulations.

IDEA4RC is being carried out by 25 partners from 12 European countries and coordinated by the Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori in Milan (Italy). The project started in September 2022 and is funded by Horizon Europe.

In a father’s story, all the reasons to pursue IDEA4RC

There was a time, a happy time, when I didn’t know what sarcoma was. There was a time I’d never even heard the word. That time ended suddenly in May 2015 when a doctor…