HIP Network (Norwegian: Nettverk for informasjonssikkerhet og personvern i helse) brings together stakeholders from healthcare providers, municipalities, industry and academia who are working with or affected by the secure and privacy-preserving use and sharing of health information (health data), including cross-border scenarios.
The network is anchored at the University of South-Eastern Norway (USN) builds on work in CoTecH Work Package 7 – Digital Security and Privacy, while also being connected to several other research and innovation projects on digital security and privacy in healthcare.
The HIP Network aims to:
The HIP Network focuses on research, innovation and practice at the intersection of health data, security and privacy, with particular emphasis on:
Decentralized and patient-centric health data ecosystems
– architectures for decentralized and distributed health data sharing,
– self-sovereign identities (SSI), verifiable credentials and trust frameworks,
– governance models for multi-stakeholder environments (health services, vendors, regulators, research).
Privacy-enhancing technologies (PETs) for health data
– homomorphic encryption and secure aggregation,
– federated learning and secure multi-party computation,
– differential privacy, anonymization, and de-identification techniques with formal guarantees.
Secure and privacy-preserving use and sharing of health data
– secure data flows between municipalities, hospitals, technology providers, and research institutions,
– cross-border sharing of health information for treatment, research, and quality improvement,
– consent, accountability and transparency in data access and reuse.
Security and privacy in AI-based health systems
– robustness, attacks and leakage risks in models trained on sensitive health data,
– privacy-preserving model training and inference,
– alignment with legal and regulatory requirements for trustworthy AI in health.
Engineering and assurance of trustworthy digital health solutions
– integration of security and privacy requirements into system design and procurement,
– risk assessment and continuous monitoring in digital health and welfare services,
– validation, evaluation and documentation towards regulators, funders, and end-users.
The HIP Network is linked to and informed by several research and innovation activities, including:
CoTecH – Work Package 7: Digital Security and Privacy
Work package focusing on digital security and privacy in health and welfare services, competence building in the region, and establishing long-term collaboration on secure and privacy-preserving health technologies.