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Traditional quality assessment approaches often require centralised access, which conflicts with the principles of data sovereignty and confidentiality.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>In this study, we evaluate the utility of federated data quality assessment with differential privacy techniques to safeguard sensitive health data. The aim is to develop tooling and demonstrate a proof-of-concept implementation over a synthetic dataset of observational medical data.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>We present a privacy-preserving framework for evaluating data quality in federated environments using differential privacy. Our approach enables individual data providers to compute local quality metrics and share only aggregated, privacy-protected results. We implement a proof-of-concept that supports predefined quality checks across different data models and demonstrate how meaningful insights into data quality can be obtained without compromising sensitive information.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>This work demonstrates that differential privacy can be effectively applied to enable federated quality assessment in health data networks without compromising individual privacy. By implementing a proof-of-concept system over synthetic health data, we show that it is possible to obtain meaningful quality metrics in a decentralised setting.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1186\/s12911-025-03328-6","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,1,27]],"date-time":"2026-01-27T05:39:07Z","timestamp":1769492347000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/springer_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Privacy-preserving data quality assessment for federated health data networks"],"prefix":"10.1186","volume":"26","author":[{"given":"Radovan","family":"Tom\u00e1\u0161ik","sequence":"first","affiliation":[]},{"given":"Tobias","family":"Kussel","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]},{"given":"Zdenka","family":"Dudov\u00e1","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]},{"given":"Radoslava","family":"Kacov\u00e1","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]},{"given":"Roman","family":"Hrstka","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]},{"given":"Martin","family":"Lablans","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]},{"given":"Petr","family":"Holub","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]}],"member":"297","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2026,1,27]]},"reference":[{"key":"3328_CR1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","unstructured":"Acosta JN, et al. 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