European hospitals launch Microsoft-backed AI network to agree privacy guardrails

The institutions that have signed up to be part of TRAIN are Erasmus MC and University Medical Center Utrecht in the Netherlands, Sweden’s Sahlgrenska University Hospital and Skåne University Hospital, Finland’s HUS Helsinki University Hospital, Italy’s Universita Vita-Salute San Raffaele, and patient advocacy non-profit Foundation 29.

This follows the launch of TRAIN in the US in March, which saw a who’s who of famous medical organizations and hospitals add their names, including Boston Children’s Hospital, Cleveland Clinic, Johns Hopkins Medicine, and Mount Sinai Health System.

Hovering over all this, of course, is Microsoft as the technology partner, styling itself as its enabler rather than leader but still an important influence.