Joan Brown, Manas Bhatnagar, Hugh Gordon, Karen Lutrick, Jared Goodner, James Blum, Raquel Bartz, Daniel Uslan, Ernesto David-DiMarino, Alfred Sorbello, Gregory Jackson, Jeremy Walsh, Lauren Neal, Marek Cyran, Henry Francis, J Perren Cobb
OBJECTIVE: We sought to explore the technical and legal readiness of healthcare institutions for novel data-sharing methods that allow clinical information to be extracted from electronic health records (EHRs) and submitted securely to the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA's) blockchain through a secure data broker (SDB). MATERIALS AND METHODS: This assessment was divided into four sections: an institutional EHR readiness assessment, legal consultation, institutional review board application submission, and a test of healthcare data transmission over a blockchain infrastructure...
July 1, 2021: Biomedical Instrumentation & Technology