2020.10.02 General Meeting Agenda
Welcome and Opening Statements
- A reminder to all HC-SIG members that this meeting is being recorded
- Videoconferencing/teleconferencing connect details are available here
- Videoconferencing/teleconferencing connect details are available here
Attendees
Mike McCoy
Lea Dias
John Hatchell
Jonathan Holt
Indira Mysore
Daniel Watkins
Arturo
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
Consider posting your contact information in our HC-SIG Membership Directory
Questions? Review our HC-SIG FAQ for answers
Community Announcements
Do you have any announcements that you'd like to share with the HC-SIG community?
Feel free to make an announcement here, on our Rocket.Chat channel, or via our email listserv
HC-SIG Subgroup Updates
Patient/Member Subgroup (Deniz Coskun, Lead)
Payer Subgroup (Raveesh Dewan, Lead)
Healthcare Interoperability Subgroup (Steven Elliott, Lead)
HC-SIG Ad Hoc Team Updates
Wiki Redesign Team
Work continues on our SIG site design
Discussion: are you a Confluence expert... interested in joining this team?
HC-SIG Use Case Development Team (Erika Beerbower, Lead)
COVID-19 Virus Pandemic Support
Funding from Around the World
Global
Grant Opportunities Related to the COVID-19 Pandemic. Updated JUL 05. GrantStation is now offering a filtering service for globally-available COVID-19 virus grants for non-profits and small businesses.
Canada
Canadian Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) Rapid Research Funding Opportunity. Updated JUN 30. On March 31, 2020, through a contribution from Research Manitoba, Research Nova Scotia, and Alberta Innovates, CIHR was able to fund an additional three grants, bringing the total number of funded grants to 99 and a total investment of $54.2M.
Funding in the US
National Cancer Institute (NCI) Funding Opportunities for Small Businesses (SBIRs/STTRs). Updated MAR 27. The NCI participates in the NIH-issued SBIR and an STTR Omnibus grant solicitation for small businesses, which allow small businesses to submit researcher-initiated projects that are within NIH’s mission.
National Institute of Health (NIH) Funding Opportunities. Updated JUN 12. Urgent Competitive Revision to Existing NIH Grants and Cooperative Agreements (Urgent Supplement - Clinical Trial Optional) recently updated through "Notice of Special Interest (NOSI): Availability of Administrative Supplements and Revision Supplements on Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)."
COVID Help for Families. A match-making service for for those offering help and those seeking help during this pandemic. Help Seekers can post urgent needs for Helpers in their area to see and fulfill. Helpers will be able to see those help requests in their area and offer help. The Helpers can get in touch with the Help Seekers and deliver the help that is requested
Additional COVID-19 Funding Opportunities
UC Davis Office of Research. Updated JUL 05. Provides a regularly updated set of links tied to COVID-19 funding opportunities across numerous US agencies, including Health and Human Services (HHS), the National Institute of Health (NIH), and the National Science Foundation (NSF), and the Gates Foundation
New Business
Speaker/Project Wish List:
- Lea: more use cases in HC. companies using use cases will be interesting. problems or pain points they have experienced
- Indira: how we have addressed privacy and security aspects of HC. self-sovereign ID aspect
- Mike: MediLedger, Pharmaledger, soon we will have genomics.io, Bloqcube (Rama)
- Lea: token economics in health care, incentivization for health outcomes, healthy behaviors, sharing clinical data
- Mike: incentivizing deep learning/machine learning models via a DLT
- Jonathan: pain points- authenticity and provenance of information sharing. using SHA/hash algos, sign data so other members can authorize information. decentralized public key infrastructure. key management systems (Octopus.sh?), key rotation, key recovery, how to distribute keys to verify information across semi-trusted partners
- Indira: Jose Arrieta present on his HHS project
- Jonathan: data retention laws within healthcare... what law can be maintained forever? required under these laws to maintain these technical infrastructures and architectures
Next Meeting
New Meeting Time: Scheduled for WEDNESDAY, 2020.10.14, 1000 Eastern Time
Discussion: topics to add to agenda?