Healthcare IT Today March 8, 2019
A trio of researchers with the University of California San Francisco have developed a blockchain-based model for sharing clinical trial data between institutions. Their model not only protects the data but also makes the data traceable and immutable, according to a paper they wrote describing their work.
The paper, which was published in the journal Nature, outlines how they built a proof-of-concept web portal service using data from a real completed clinical trial. It notes that at present there are many levels at which such data could be intentionally falsified or accumulate errors, and that it remains difficult to track and access data across the complex network of data partners often involved in such trials.
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