Beacon

Ideal Use Cases

Relay is open-source, containerised, and security-conscious—enabling ethical, scalable health research through federated collaboration.

• Multi-site cohort discovery for clinical trials or observational studies
• Feasibility assessments without sharing raw data
• Privacy-preserving network coordination with built-in resilience to node outages

Functionality

Relay is an application developed by the University of Nottingham that enables federated cohort discovery across health data networks.

The code for Relay is open source, and can be found on Github.

More about Relay and how to deploy it can be found in the Relay documentation.

Integration and Extensibility

Relay integrates seamlessly with the Task API, allowing coordinated queries across multiple nodes. Its open-source nature means it can be extended, adapted, and embedded into existing research infrastructures to support a range of governance and interoperability needs.