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Hyperledger Healthcare Working Group (HLHCWG)
General Meeting Agenda for 2018-11-16
Resources:
Chat: https://chat.hyperledger.org/channel/healthcare-wg (you can use your LFID to login)
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Wiki: https://wiki.hyperledger.org
HCWG Wiki: https://wiki.hyperledger.org/groups/healthcare/healthcare-wg
Public lists: https://lists.hyperledger.org
Meetings: https://wiki.hyperledger.org/community/calendar-public-meetings
Hyperledger class: Blockchain for Business - An Introduction to Hyperledger Technologies
Linux Foundation Antitrust reminder: https://www.linuxfoundation.org/antitrust-policy
Welcome and Opening Statements
- A reminder to all HLHCWG members that this meeting is being recorded
- Discussion: request for note-taking for this meeting
In attendance:
- Rich Bloch
- Marissa Iannarone
- Adrian Berg
- Leonard Edwin
- Alex Zhovnuvaty (Guest Speaker)
- Jeff Stollman
- Natassa Theodouli
- Kosta Moschchou
- Satarupa Bose
- Silona
Introductions
- If you’re new to the group, please…
- Introduce yourself
- Tell us where you're geographically located
- Share with us your interests in healthcare in general, and blockchain technologies in specific
Silona - new VP of community architecture at Hyperledger joined the call
Natassa Theodouli (Hyperledger associated company) - Research associate at CERTH Greek entity working in the blockchain space - focus on data sharing and permission handling; interested in Healthcare, IoT, and global energy: https://www.certh.gr/root.en.aspx
HLHCWG Guest Speaker
- Alex Zhovnuvaty, CTO of RideChain, and the creator of Sawtooth Healthcare, a blockchain application built on Hyperledger Sawtooth, allowing clinics to keep history regarding patients health and claims on the blockchain, will present to membership to gauge interest in his solution.
- Alex has a background in IT and startups particularly in the ride-sharing space
- Use flow is for an individual with a “claim” to a healthcare provider, gets prescribes treatment (tests, medication, procedure), patient gets treatment, gets a follow up visit, and claim is followed until 'claim' is satisfied
- Qualities of blockchain to be leveraged: Immutability, Transparency, and Finality
- It can be expanded to a variety of use cases including insurance company claims, malpractice validation, physician reviews, data sharing between clinics, etc.
- The project is currently in GitHub (see link above)
- Currently only Alex and one junior developer is working on this
Team feedback:
- This seems like a multitude of projects as each use case has different requirements and really is “Sawtooth for Healthcare”
- How is data privacy protected through a private blockchain network would help prevent this
- Silona recommends coordinating with the Indy privacy DID work to ensure they understand the use cases and can work towards to solution
- Access control is also an issue for having data on the blockchain - (i.e. the patient is unconcious and can't give permission to access data)
- TO DO: Rich to follow up on what is defined as a “sponsor” - the question is also if there is financial support for Labs
Community Announcements
- Feel free to share your community announcements as they relate to the Hyperledger community
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- December 12-15, Basel, Switzerland
- Silona and Marissa are planning to attend, and will be able to report back
- Marissa will be moderating a panel on permissioned vs private blockchain
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- March 12-14, 2019, Osaka, Japan
- Emphasis on life sciences, with topics of interest to include healthcare and medical technologies
- 2-Page Short Paper Submission (All Categories) deadline is November 30, 2018
- Discussion: anyone planning or interested in attending?
- Marissa will be attending Hyperledger Global Forum; Len may be attending, but currently unlikely
- No current interest in IEEE LifeTech Conference
HLHCWG Subgroup Updates
- Patient/Member Subgroup (Marissa Iannarone, Lead)
Donor milk continues to work on donor milk use case and are looking for a pivot to look at leveraging pre-existing supply chain builds that are out there and connect with EMR systems to see if we can address a very specific issue that the milk bank has.
- Payer Subgroup (Raveesh Dewan, Lead)
Continuing to work on decision framework for leveraging blockchain for healthcare use cases
- EMR Subgroup (Robert Chu, Lead)
- Discussion: we are looking for a new EHR Subgroup Lead
Old Business
- Redesigned HLHCWG Wiki is now complete (Rich)
- Ad Hoc Wiki Redesign Team: Rayne DeVivo, Brian Ahier, and Mikhail Elias
- We are now using this redesign as our HLHCWG wiki homepage
- Expect periodic updates going forward as the Confluence solution gets developed
- Now officially moved over to newly-redesigned wiki home page
- Still making minor tweaks to the design
- Continued plan is to migrate over to the Confluence wiki when that site has stabilized
- Update on academic research in the Hyperledger Project, specifically within healthcare (Rich, Adrian)
- Ad Hoc Academic Research Team: Adrian Berg and Mikhail Elias
- Plan is to develop a proposal/presentation and submit to TSC
- Currently in works, draft located here
- Work continues on draft proposal
- Currently in draft edit phase
- Update on the HLHCWG Charter Review (Ken, Leonard)
- Thanks to our Ad Hoc Charter Review Committee: Ken Allgood and Leonard Edwin
- Currently in final edit, draft located here
- Great work done on charter review/revision to date
- Currently in final external edit (thank you Marissa and Adrian)
- Expected external edit to be completed EOD 11/23
- Final step will be to open up to HLHCWG membership for review
- Healthcare technologies challenges (Rich)
- Upcoming opportunities: NIST Differential Privacy Synthetic Data Challenge, KidneyX Redesign Dialysis Prize Competition
- From community feedback, plan is to pursue the KidneyX challenge, and forego the NIST challenge
- Discussion tabled for next meeting (time constrained)
- A HIPAA-compliant Hyperledger (Rich)
- Discussion: not much community feedback to date… next steps?
- Discussion tabled for next meeting (time constrained)
New Business
- Summary of the 2018 Distributed Health Conference
- Conference report from HLHCWG members in attendance (Satarupa Bose, Adrian Berg, and Michael Johnson)
- Satarupa provided an overview in addition to the report
- Adrian provided a brief summary, indicating that the notes that he and Michael Johnson published are available for membership review
- End of Year HLHCWG Survey
- Discussion: specific areas of focus for this upcoming survey?
- Discussion tabled for next meeting (time constrained)
- Onboarding slide presentation for HLHCWG
- Great example presented by the Social Impact Working Group
- Ostensibly used for onboarding a new chair/officer, but could be used for new members?
- Discussion: would there be good utility/value to something like this?
- Discussion tabled for next meeting (time constrained)
Next Meeting
- Scheduled for Friday, 11/30, 0700 Pacific Time
- Discussion: topics to add to agenda?
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