# The future of digital health with federated learning

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## TL;DR

Paper cited by one technology page, indexed on Europe PMC as PubMed record 33015372 and published in NPJ digital medicine; the citing page links this DOI, which is how the record was matched.

## Summary

Data-driven machine learning (ML) has emerged as a promising approach for building accurate and robust statistical models from medical data, which is collected in huge volumes by modern healthcare systems. Existing medical data is not fully exploited by ML primarily because it sits in data silos and privacy concerns restrict access to this data. However, without access to sufficient data, ML will be prevented from reaching its full potential and, ultimately, from making the transition from research to clinical practice. This paper considers key factors contributing to this issue, explores how federated learning (FL) may provide a solution for the future of digital health and highlights the challenges and considerations that need to be addressed.

Indexed on Europe PMC as PubMed record 33015372 (DOI 10.1038/s41746-020-00323-1). Matched by DOI alone: one technology page cites this DOI among its external links (the pages are listed under Related), and this page was written so that the citation resolves inside OnCo. No figure has been checked by an editor.

## Fields

- Kind: Key paper
- Last checked: 2026-09-22
- Tags: europepmc-ingest
- Journal: NPJ digital medicine
- Year: 2020
- DOI: 10.1038/s41746-020-00323-1
- Authors: Rieke N, Hancox J, Li W, et al.
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## Sources

- NPJ Digit Med 2020: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41746-020-00323-1
- PubMed: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33015372/
- Europe PMC: https://europepmc.org/article/MED/33015372

## Connected records

- technologies: [Federated learning and privacy-preserving AI](https://onco.cc/technologies/federated-learning-medical-ai/)

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