On the Design of a Blockchain Platform for Clinical Trial and Precision Medicine

This paper proposes a blockchain platform architecture for clinical trial and precision medicine and discusses various design aspects and provides some insights in the technology requirements and challenges. We identify 4 new system architecture components that are required to be built on top of tra...

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Published in:Proceedings of the International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems pp. 1972 - 1980
Main Authors: Zonyin Shae, Tsai, Jeffrey J. P.
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Published: IEEE 01.06.2017
Subjects:
Big Data
big data analytics
blockchain
clinical trial
Clinical trials
Computer architecture
data integration
data integrity
Data privacy
distributed and parallel computing
Distributed databases
identity privacy
IoT
Parallel processing
patient centric medicine
precision medicine
ISSN:1063-6927
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Summary:This paper proposes a blockchain platform architecture for clinical trial and precision medicine and discusses various design aspects and provides some insights in the technology requirements and challenges. We identify 4 new system architecture components that are required to be built on top of traditional blockchain and discuss their technology challenges in our blockchain platform: (a) a new blockchain based general distributed and parallel computing paradigm component to devise and study parallel computing methodology for big data analytics, (b) blockchain application data management component for data integrity, big data integration, and integrating disparity of medical related data, (c) verifiable anonymous identity management component for identity privacy for both person and Internet of Things (IoT) devices and secure data access to make possible of the patient centric medicine, and (d) trust data sharing management component to enable a trust medical data ecosystem for collaborative research.
ISSN:1063-6927
DOI:10.1109/ICDCS.2017.61