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(Kateryna-Kon/Shutterstock) The Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) in September awarded Duality Technologies a contract worth up to $6 million to develop a framework for enabling healthcare organizations to share highly sensitive patient data. If successful, the project will enable smaller healthcare organizations to securely access sensitive health data to conduct research into rare diseases, including those that have a disparate impact on racial minorities. The phrase “rare disease” is a bit of a misnomer. While some diseases statistically are very rare, the fact is that roughly 20% of the country’s population is affected by a rare disease at…