Bio-IT World June 5, 2019
Ever since blockchain burst onto the scene a decade ago as a technology primarily designed for use in the financial services industry, people have continually found new—and sometimes odd—applications for the technology. Blockchain has been applied to everything from “buying” time (sic!) to renting a supercomputer, yet when it comes to the life sciences, a lack of practical applications has resulted in blockchain being considered a “hammer in search of a nail.”
Over that same time, life science organizations have been attempting to cope with an ever-increasing flood of information, arriving from many hundreds of sources in varied formats, with stringent governance and compliance requirements for how data is used. For several years, The Pistoia Alliance has been working with...
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