The Advanced Research Collaboration for Health Integration, Medical Exploration, and Data Synthesis (ARCHIMEDES) is a bilingual national digital health data platform that enables researchers to collect, manage, share, and perform analysis, including biostatistical analyses, predictive modelling, data visualization and artificial intelligence.
ARCHIMEDES is equipped to collect or ingest multimodal brain, heart, and mind data (e.g., behavioural data, imaging data, biobank materials data, and administrative data).
The development of ARCHIMEDES is led by Drs. Jodi Edwards and Kelly Cobey (UOHI), in collaboration with Dr. Alan Evans (Mcgill) and Dr. Peter Liu (UOHI). It expands upon the existing Neurohub platform developed at McGill University. The platform is funded through the Brain-Heart Interconnectome (BHI).
ARCHIMEDES is flexible by design. Data on ARCHIMEDES is presently shared through two tiers Controlled Access and Open Access:
- Open Access, meaning data can freely be available to anyone to explore and use, no account required
- Controlled Access, which is secure, restricted data sharing for qualified researchers who meet privacy, ethical, and approval requirements.
- Data released in Registered Access will be available for ARCHIMEDES users in the next phase of the platform development. Data released in Registered Access data refers to data that is accessible to vetted users who are registered within ARCHIMEDES and undergo an approval.
All data hosted on the platform are de-identified and/or coded by the research team prior to uploading.
ARCHIMEDES also offers a robust informatics infrastructure that provides access to curated and federated health data through an open-access repository, alongside advanced predictive analytics capabilities. Together, these features make ARCHIMEDES a powerful and secure environment for health data discovery, integration, and analysis.
The ARCHIMEDES Ethics and Data Governance Framework outline the tools and practices that enable responsible contribution and dissemination of health data through ARCHIMEDES and the necessary steps to ensure responsible, ethical, and transparent data use. Learn more about how data is governed and accessed on the platform.
If you are from a designated institution or a researcher interested in depositing data or sharing datasets, you can get started with ARCHIMEDES.