Efficient personal data vaults

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What if you could store your personal data in your own digital vault and control who accesses it?

Today, our personal data is scattered across data centers worldwide, often without our knowledge or consent. But what if you could keep your data, like your own health records, in a personal data vault, a secure digital locker where you decide who gets access?

Computer scientist Dore Staquet (VITO - UHasselt) wants to make this a reality. While the idea is promising, retrieving data efficiently, for example, when a hospital needs to access health information from all its patients, can slow everything down. Dore’s research focuses on adapting proven data retrieval methods to make personal data vaults fast, scalable, and user-friendly. His goal? More control over your data, without sacrificing speed or convenience.

More details can be found in a recent article published in the journal ACM Transactions on the Web. Dore and his promotors Bart Buelens (VITO) and Jan Van den Bussche (UHasselt) explain how selections from data from data vaults can be kept up-to-date efficiently when data elements in the vaults change. The research results will be used in the We Are platform developed by VITO, for managing personal health data.
 

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Dore Staquet
UHasselt - VITO

Dore Staquet is a PhD researcher in the field of theoretical computer science and database at Uhasselt and KU Leuven. He basically studies how computers can better organize, store, and retrieve information, like your personal data. Right now, he’s focusing on ways to update and access data efficiently, especially when it’s spread across different systems. His work could help make technology like digital data vaults faster, smarter, and more user-friendly. 

Contact Dore

https://we-are-health.be/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/dore-staquet-aa26561b4/

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