About
Building on collaborative research programs at Brigham Genomic Medicine and the Undiagnosed Diseases Network, our team developed AnFiSA, an open-source platform for genomic analysis documented in our Journal of Biomedical Informatics publication. Since then, we have evolved our focus toward building trust and interpretability in clinical decision-making systems. Today, we work with healthcare institutions to create transparent, auditable platforms that make complex clinical rules verifiable and regulatory-compliant, through comprehensive provenance and compliance as code.
Partners
We welcome new collaborators joining our efforts to advance transparent and interpretable clinical decision-making systems. Whether you’re a healthcare institution, research organization, or technology developer interested in regulatory-compliant solutions, please contact us for collaboration opportunities.
Health Data Provenance
Healthcare’s digital transformation depends on one critical capability: knowing exactly how data moves and transforms from source to decision. Our journey began with tracking genetic variants through complex bioinformatics pipelines in AnFiSA, where we learned that reproducibility requires capturing not just results but entire computational histories. Today, this challenge extends across healthcare—from ensuring reproducible research in Trusted Research Environments to demonstrating algorithmic transparency for EHDS compliance, from validating clinical trial transformations to auditing AI/ML training data.
Current healthcare systems fail at provenance because they treat it as an afterthought—logs scattered across systems, transformations hidden in code, metadata disconnected from processing. This fragmentation makes it impossible to answer critical questions: Which version of guidelines produced this diagnosis? Can we reproduce this research finding in another environment? How did raw sensor data become a risk score? Without comprehensive provenance, healthcare organizations cannot demonstrate compliance, ensure reproducibility, or build trust in their computational decisions.
Through our evolution from genomic workflows to DORIEH’s complex healthcare pipelines, we’ve developed systematic approaches to embed provenance directly into data architectures. Our Domain-Specific Language methodology captures every transformation, parameter, and decision point in machine-readable yet clinically interpretable formats. This enables healthcare organizations to trace any result back to its origins, reproduce analyses across different environments, validate that implementations match clinical intent, and automatically generate audit trails for regulatory review. By making provenance intrinsic rather than retrospective, we transform black-box systems into transparent infrastructures ready for healthcare’s data-driven future.

Compliance as Code
Traditional compliance treats regulations as checklists applied after systems are built. We believe compliance should be executable, testable, and embedded directly into healthcare data systems. Building on our experience validating ACMG guidelines in AnFiSA, we’ve pioneered approaches that transform regulatory requirements from static documents into living code that governs data processing. This shift from “documenting compliance” to “computing compliance” fundamentally changes how healthcare organizations approach regulatory challenges.
The gap between regulatory text and technical implementation creates massive inefficiencies. Organizations interpret requirements differently, auditors struggle to verify implementation, and every regulatory change triggers manual system reviews. Meanwhile, clinical guidelines published as PDFs cannot be systematically validated against actual practice. Whether implementing Five Safes principles in TREs, ensuring GDPR-compliant data flows, meeting EHDS technical specifications, or validating clinical decision support against medical guidelines, the pattern repeats: human interpretation of rules that should be computationally precise.
Our Domain-Specific Language approach makes compliance computational. By expressing regulatory requirements and clinical guidelines in formal yet accessible languages, we enable automated validation that systems implement requirements correctly, continuous testing that compliance is maintained as systems evolve, transparent documentation generated from actual implementation, and rapid adaptation when regulations change. From genomic interpretation rules to TRE security policies, from data quality frameworks to clinical pathways, our methodology ensures that what’s required is what’s built. This evolution from reactive compliance to proactive, embedded governance provides healthcare organizations with the confidence that their systems don’t just claim compliance—they compute it.
Community
Forome Association brings together researchers, healthcare institutions, and technology developers to advance transparent and auditable clinical decision-making. Our open-source platform enables collaborative development of solutions that make clinical rules interpretable and trustworthy for regulatory compliance.
We welcome contributions from clinicians, researchers, and software developers to our open-source projects on GitHub. Whether you’re contributing code, documentation, or use cases, your expertise helps advance regulatory-compliant healthcare technology.
We are actively seeking clinical and research partners to collaborate on validating clinical rules and guidelines. If your organization is interested in developing transparent, auditable clinical decision systems, please contact us to explore partnership opportunities.
Open-source toolkit
Healthcare organizations worldwide face increasing demands for transparent, auditable clinical decision-making systems that meet regulatory standards and build institutional trust.
Forome provides open-source tools and methodologies that enable healthcare institutions to build transparent, auditable clinical systems with systematic provenance capture and rule validation. Our Domain-Specific Language approach and validation framework serve as essential foundations for Trusted Research Environments (TREs), clinical platforms, and any healthcare system requiring regulatory compliance and decision traceability.

We welcome research institutes, clinical organizations and concerned individuals
Our Team
Prof. Shamil Sunyaev, PhD
Advisor; Harvard Medical SchoolContact us
We are welcoming new members of our association and platform.
Please reach out to us if you are interested in joining our association or would like to know more about our open source tools, implementation support, its roadmap etc.
We are looking forward to hearing any comments and cooperation ideas.
Offices location
Vienna, Austria
+1 (617) 264 8705
