Transforming pediatric oncology research through data science:
The Princess Máxima Center’s
journey with DISQOVER 

The Princess Máxima Center’s mission is to cure every child with cancer, with optimal quality of life.

To achieve this, a fundamental pillar of the organization is to ensure an optimized exchange of data and knowledge between researchand care units so cross-functional data can be optimally and securely found and accessed, in compliance with privacy and security policies.

They decided for DISQOVER for this purpose, following an extensive pilot in 2022, involving a wide range of Princess Máxima Center researchers and clinicians who gained a detailed technical understanding of the DISQOVER technology and experienced first-hand how it can efficiently transform operations.

The outcome 

The Princess Máxima Center uses DISQOVER to connect their siloed data sources in one harmonized platform enabling optimized data exploration and time and cost efficiencies.

ONTOFORCE’s DISQOVER platform strengthens Princess Máxima Center’s data exploration capabilities and enabling them to uphold the FAIR (findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable) data principles as a research institution best practice.

On top of the value that DISQOVER brings in terms of efficiencies, innovation, and data democratization, ONTOFORCE’s team of data science experts also support the Princess Máxima Center users so they can achieve maximum results within the platform to further optimize research capabilities.

Michiel Kooper, Managing Director IDT (Information Technology, Data Provision, and Biomedical Technology) at the Princess Máxima Center for pediatric oncology, says

“With ONTOFORCE’s next level search technology, we will be able to safely open up more clinical data for researchers than ever before, helping us to improve our care for children with cancer and to accelerate our pediatric oncology research. We’ve already received great support from ONTOFORCE’s data science experts in implementing DISQOVER so it is tailored to the needs of our organization.”