Driving Collaboration Among Researchers Through BurstIQ’s Research Foundry
We’re all anxious for better data sharing among pharmaceutical companies, as well as other institutions researching COVID-19. Although most of the barriers are cultural–a fear of being beaten to a cure or having valuable insights stolen–sharing is still hard technically. For years, I’ve covered organizations that try to promote collaboration of various types, such as the tranSMART Foundation and Sage Bionetworks (the latter with a particular interest in data sharing). With Research Foundry, a company founded in 2015 named BurstIQ is making progress in this noble endeavor.
BurstIQ is a secure data network for health care that facilitates machine learning and data sharing. Through its Research Foundry, organizations can use these analytics, as well as licensing data, controlling its distribution, and digitally signing contracts to limit the data’s use. The following figure shows some of the graphs created by analytics on Research Foundry.
BurstIQ’s CEO, Frank Ricotta, likes to call its clients and partners a “network,” illustrating their goal of giving access by deserving institutions enabling technology. The company has an international reach, with clients in many countries. They work with the OECD and several nations in the British Commonwealth. A big part of their mission, according to Ricotta, is to help under-represented communities and bring social determinants of health (SDoH) to the surface.
To that end, they have recently announced a data challenge with the American Heart Association, focusing on finding disparities and SDoH related to COVID-19 infections. Researchers have access to data in the AHA’s Precision Medicine Platform (hosted on the Hitachi Vantara cloud) along with BurstIQ’s analytics.
Read the full article on Healthcare IT Today: https://www.healthcareittoday.com/2020/05/26/driving-collaboration-among-researchers-through-burstiqs-research-foundry/
About BurstIQ
BurstIQ is the leading provider of blockchain-enabled data solutions for the identity, healthcare and life sciences industries. The company’s secure data exchange network combines blockchain, multi-layered governance and best-in-class security to build multi-dimensional profiles, called LifeGraphs®, of people, places and things, and empower the connections between them. LifeGraph® Network allows organizations to manage the ownership and sharing of sensitive data, with consent, governance and process automation built in. The result is a global, secure data network that allows health systems, payers, digital health companies, pharma & life science companies and governments to collaborate, share, discover and build the impossible.
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