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IBM Watson Health Announces Collaboration to Study the Use of Blockchain Technology for Secure Exchange of Healthcare Data

January 2017 by Emmanuelle Lamandé

IBM Watson Health has signed a research initiative with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
aimed at defining a secure, efficient and scalable exchange of health data using
blockchain technology.
IBM and the FDA will explore the exchange of owner mediated
data from several sources, such as Electronic Medical Records, clinical trials,
genomic data, and health data from mobile devices, wearables and the "Internet of
Things." The initial focus will be on oncology-related data.

Transformative healthcare solutions are possible when healthcare researchers and
providers have access to a 360-degree view of patient data. Today, patients have
little access to their health data and cannot easily share with researchers or
providers. Giving patients the opportunity to share their data securely, for
research purposes or across their healthcare providers, creates opportunities for
major advancements in healthcare. Blockchain technology, which enables organizations
to work together with more trust, is designed to help make this a reality.

By keeping an audit trail of all transactions on an unalterable distributed ledger,
blockchain technology establishes accountability and transparency in the data
exchange process. In the past, large scale sharing of health data has been limited
by concerns of data security and breaches of patient privacy during the data
exchange process.

A recent IBM Institute for Business Value paper
’Healthcare rallies for
blockchains [1],
based on a survey of about 200 healthcare executives, found that more than seven in
ten industry leaders anticipate the highest benefits of blockchain in healthcare to
accrue to managing clinical trial records, regulatory compliance and medical/health
records.

IBM and the FDA will explore how a blockchain framework can potentially provide
benefits to public health by supporting important use cases for information exchange
across a wide variety of data types, including clinical trials and "real world"
evidence data. New insights combining data across the healthcare ecosystem can
potentially lead to new biomedical discoveries. Patient data from wearables and
connected devices for example, can help doctors and caregivers better manage
population health.

The collaboration will also address new ways to leverage the large volumes of
diverse data in today’s biomedical and healthcare industries. A secure
owner-mediated data sharing ecosystem could potentially hold the promise of new
discoveries and improved public health.

IBM brings extensive expertise in blockchain technology, for example, IBM is
founding member and key contributor to the Linux Foundation’s Hyperledger project.

As the promise of blockchain in healthcare becomes increasingly evident, IBM will
work to define and build the technological solution for a scalable and decentralized
data sharing ecosystem.

The initiative with the FDA is a two-year agreement. IBM Watson Health and the FDA
plan to share initial research findings in 2017.


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