Tune Insight attracts two major clients

Recently, Tune Insight informed about two new major clients. The EPFL startup just announced an agreement with Universtitätsspital Basel to enable secure federated learning on dermatology images from multiple countries and jurisdictions. The advanced medical research from Prof. Navarini in digital dermatology involves several hospitals or clinical sites in multiple jurisdictions hosting dermatology-related images, that are willing to collaborate in training collective machine learning models across their joint image corpus, to improve artificial intelligence models performance in clinical settings.

Supporting the pediatric sub-saharan population

Tune Insight’s solution will be specifically beneficial to facilitate cross-jurisdictional collaborations with Guinea Dermatological Clinic, Madagascar LARTIC and Tanzania RDTC for the “PASSION project”. Funded by Fondation “Botnar”, the project aims to improve diagnosis and treatment of common skin conditions in the pediatric sub-saharan population using an AI driven teledermatology platform. This is made possible by Tune Insight’s provable technological guarantees that authorized users of the platform can only get access to the global insights (aggregates and models) built on the whole network data, whereas no access or transfer is granted on the local contributed data, which remains under the control of its source while complying with data protection regulations.

Contacted by Startupticker.ch, Tune Insight’s co-founder and COO Frédéric Pont tells us: “This initial deployment paves the way for potential connection of all PASSION hospitals. Our commercial strategy is to enable secure data collaboration in multiple verticals, with a core product that remains the same across verticals and applications. This particular use-case validates Tune Insight’s ability to also secure federated learning at scale with high-resolution images and deep neural networks, thanks to our efficient combination of homomorphic encryption, multi-party computation and differential privacy.”

Valued expertise in Value-Based Healthcare 

Tune Insight has also won over Groupe Mutuel. Since incubation, Tune Insight has worked closely with Swiss Re and other financial services institutions, including banks, so this is not its first experience in this vertical. Speaking of the collaboration, COO Frédéric Pont adds “VBHC is an interesting use-case for us, because it calls for cross-companies data collaborations, with regulatory restrictions; this is completely aligned with our value proposition, based on technology that prevents transfers or disclosure of raw data to other participants. Our track record in healthcare, specifically with Swiss university hospitals for precision oncology and personalized reference range also proved to be a key asset in being selected by Groupe Mutuel.” 

Aiming at countering the continuously rising costs of healthcare through outcome driven orientation, VBHC calls for tighter collaboration amongst healthcare providers and insurers during the patient journey. Data plays a key role in VBHC. Tune Insight's proposed solution, originally developed at EPFL for hospitals to collaborate on patient data, allows parties to collaborate on data without moving it and without disclosing it to other parties.

Set to grow in Switzerland and Europe

Tune Insight orchestrates secure collaborations on sensitive or confidential data across companies, domains or jurisdictions, enabling collective analytics, federated machine learning or other approved computations while protecting data in-use and streamlining compliance. In the future the startup will continue to develop and commercialize its solutions for cybersecurity, healthcare, supply chain, and financial services, in Switzerland and in Europe.

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Photo L-R Tune Insight founders Romain Bouyé, Juan Troncoso Pastoriza, Frédéric Pont