Concurrent Panel Session - Panel C: Should Your Health Data Be Managed on A Blockchain?
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Blockchain has promise to overcome many of our current healthcare data and records management challenges. This includes overcoming digital health data silos, to providing users with greater control and security assurance of their health data/records, to streamlining the consent process for sharing of health data in healthcare research. But is it really stable and secure enough for our health data and medical records? Blockchain technology creates an immutable and transparent record of a transaction. Is it possible to reconcile these features with protection of personal privacy? It’s also complicated for the average user to use. Are people ready to take on this level of complexity? Personalized medicine relies upon the application of big data analytic techniques. Can these techniques be applied to data that is decentralized and distributed over a blockchain network? This panel discussion considers active research on the application of blockchain technology to the management health data and records. Each of the panelists is actively engaged in research to answer these questions whether our health data should be managed on a blockchain and, if so, how it should be managed. Concurrent Panel Session - Panel D: Shining a Light on the Encryption DebateErinn Atwater, Dr. John Comiskey, Dr. Christopher Parsons, Ray Pompon, Dr. Kelly SundbergN/AN/AIn a world of increasing cyber threats, access to and the use of strong encryption technology is essential to secure digital transactions, ensure public safety and protect national security interests. However, the same data encryption that protects us also makes it difficult for police and other state agencies to gather intelligence on those who might be instigating the cyber threats in the first place. Strong data encryption protects individuals and their right to privacy, but some governments have called for limits on the public availability of this technology. Do the interests of national security override the right to personal privacy, or should individual rights be maintained at all costs, even if it is to the detriment of a country and its government?