Blockchain solutions for the healthcare industry to improve quality and reliability of clinical trials data.
Business Overview
The tricky and unpredictable nature of the clinical trial process is a crucial driver of high costs for pharmaceutical drugs. The FDA reports that almost 10% of the case they scan feature some problems related to consent collection.
Our client approached us to create a blockchain-based solution that boost clinical research quality and improve reliability.
The huge amounts of data created in clinical trials are outpacing the ability of data-management platforms to administer the competing needs of data sharing, patient privacy, and data integrity
The Challenge
Healthcare is a clinical domain where a huge amount of data is generated,
acquired, and distributed on a regular basis. Storing and circulating such sensitive data is significantly challenging, this large amount of data is important for security and privacy purposes.
We developed a cryptography clinical setups, where the patient’s data is transferred either via a “store-and-forward technology”, or by the means of online real-time clinical monitoring was a huge challenge.
One of the major challenges was to implement a system for stabilizing and securing the data set with which users can interact through different types of transactions which will make it more reliable for clinical trials.
The critical part was to create a protocol that provides smart contract functionality in blockchain and is used parallel to clinic based data management system.
Our Approach
Implementing blockchain in pharma to improve the quality and reliability of clinical trial indeed require matured approach. We produced a prototype that uses distinct blockchain perks in managing authentication, confidentiality, nobility, and ease of sharing of data. It works on a decentralized records management system, and claims to provide patients a detailed, immutable history. Also, it allows easy access to their respective healthcare information across various providers and treatment institutions.
We created a system which doesn’t store medical records or require an adjustment time. But, it stores a mark of the record on a blockchain and advises the patient, who is eventually responsible for where that record can move. The mark guarantees that an unchanged duplicate of the record was acquired
We developed a protocol that provides smart contract functionality in blockchain and is used parallel to clinic-based data management system. Our primary focus of the study was to address the issue of the patient enrolment problem.
Ethereum resulted in quicker transactions, as compared to bitcoin, and hence the derived conclusion proposed the use of Ethereum smart contracts for transparency of data management systems in clinical trials
USP of our project:
A blockchain prototype
To address the issue of the patient enrolment by managing authentication, confidentiality, nobility, and ease of sharing of data
Cryptography Clinical Setups
To ensure data integrity where the patients’ data is transferred securely
System for stabilizing and securing the data:
To enable users interact through different types of transactions and make it more reliable for clinical trials
Transparent system
To improve the quality and reliability of clinical trials data by providing real-time visibility into the entire clinical trial supply chain
Ethereum smart contracts
To enforce the level transparency,traceability and control over clinical trial sequences
Proof-of-concept
To collect participant consent for a clinical trial and track events in correct chronological order
About App
Results – a journey from ideas to success
Developed a blockchain prototype in managing authentication, confidentiality, nobility, and ease of sharing of data.
Transparent and effective system that save resources
Store-and-Forward technology
Implementation of a system for stabilizing and securing the data set with which users can interact through different types of transactions which will make it more reliable for clinical trials.
Technologies we used
Ethereum
Hyperledger
Ripple
Quorum
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