PhD candidate: Anton Hasselgren, INB/MH
Main supervisor: Professor Arild Faxvaag, INB/MH
Co-supervisors: Professor Danilo Gligoroski, IIK/IE, Associate Professor Katina Kralevska, IIK/IE, Professor Kristian Hveem, ISM/MH
Overview:
Blockchains have just started to inspire the health care and health science communities. We foresee important impact areas for the technology: (i) Data integrity and provenance. Blockchain- based systems may ensure improved sample tracking for enhanced transparency and trust. (ii) Data exchange and interoperability. Blockchain may empower cryptographically secured and irrevocable dataexchangesystems. (iii)Clinicalandpopulation-basedresearch.Blockchain-enabledimmutable records may improve errors and result reporting in clinical trials, smart-contracts for consents and de-identified phenotype transactions may transform population-based health studies.
Outcomes:
The goal of this PhD project is to understand and decode the hype cycle for blockchain technologies and assess its realistic health care and health science applications. We will utilise HUNT Cloud to experiment and assess technologies using real life health information. We will seek active participation in international consortia. We aim to use our insight to impact both policies and practices in the implementation of blockchain in the national and international health communities.
Intermediate Results:
A Blockchain-based Biomedical Consent Management Platform