This is an aggregate repository for all components of MainSEL, a patient list and distributed record linkage system for medical institutions. It is powered by Mainzelliste (Lablans et al, 2015), a patient list used by a multitude of German medical research institutions, biobanks and patient registries.
Our primary objective is to provide industry leading privacy guarantees and protect the patient's data to a degree, not seen before. To that end we employ cutting-edge hybrid secure Multi-Party Computation (sMPC) protocols in our distributed, decentralized record linkage system.
For more informations see our publication Mainzelliste SecureEpiLinker (MainSEL): Privacy-Preserving Record Linkage using Secure Multi-Party Computation
MainSEL consists of three repositories:
- The Mainzelliste, the patient list,
- The Secure Epilinker, the sMPC preforming record linkage component, and
- The Docker Deployment package, for easy and quick deployment and configuration.
Some documentation and how-to-guides can be found in the respective repositories. Documentation concerned with the complete MainSEL system is published in this repository. At the moment this documentation consists of the MainSEL API reference, more tutorials and how-to guides will be added in the future.