SBIR Phase I: A Platform for Health Care Data Integration Using Blockchain and Artificial Intelligence

SBIR 第一阶段：使用区块链和人工智能的医疗保健数据集成平台

• 批准号: 2125909
• 负责人: Irene Woerner
• 金额: $ 25.41万
• 依托单位: EMTRUTH, INC.
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-02-15 至 2023-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2125909&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SBIR; Phase; Platform; Health; Care

The broader impact /commercial potential of this Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project aims to improve health outcomes while managing costs. The proposed technology enables the integration and retrieval of data from many places and formats across a distributed ecosystem secured by blockchain. Healthcare, a $2.9 B market segment, is targeted because the need is great and the US healthcare market is highly fragmented. Making healthcare data faster to interoperate and share while maintaining data integrity, security and privacy is key to potentially improving healthcare outcomes. This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project is advancing foundational technology for searching and retrieving heterogeneous data secured in blockchain across a distributed data platform. Multiple data sources with different formats and data models will be transformed into more granular data blocks in blockchain. In addition to normalizing blockchain data into more granular data blocks for sharing and re-use in different applications (i.e., simplifying data integration and interoperability), research will use natural language processing (NLP) to assist in automatically generating metadata tags to facilitate searching across blockchains. To improve the accuracy of data returned in the search, a human expert-curated healthcare dictionary and thesaurus will be created and used in concert with NLP assistance. This combined approach should improve the accuracy of data retrieval by non-IT, healthcare, users across a secure, peer-to-peer data platform where data owners retain full ownership and control of their data. The proposed research will also validate through performance testing new blockchain search capabilies will meet the responsiveness and scale required by healthcare enterprises, a key need for commercialization. In particular, the project will establish benchmarks for speed and latency across a geographically dispersed network.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

这项小型企业创新研究（SBIR）I阶段项目的更广泛的影响 /商业潜力旨在改善健康状况，同时管理成本。 提出的技术可以从区块链确保的分布式生态系统中的许多地方和格式的数据集成和检索。医疗保健是一个$ 2.9 B的市场细分市场，其目标是因为需求很大，并且美国医疗保健市场高度分散。使医疗保健数据更快地互操作和共享，同时保持数据完整性，安全性和隐私是改善医疗结果的关键。这项小型企业创新研究（SBIR）I阶段项目正在推进基础技术，用于在分布式数据平台上搜索和检索区块链中保护的异质数据。具有不同格式和数据模型的多个数据源将被转换为区块链中更精细的数据块。除了将区块链数据标准化为更颗粒状的数据块，以在不同的应用程序中共享和重复使用（即，简化数据集成和互操作性）外，研究还将使用自然语言处理（NLP）来帮助自动生成元数据标签以促进跨区块的搜索。为了提高搜索中返回的数据的准确性，将在NLP帮助协同下创建并使用人类专家策划的医疗词典和词库。这种合并的方法应提高非IT，医疗保健，用户，在安全的，点对点数据平台上的数据检索的准确性，其中数据所有者保留了全部所有权和对其数据的控制。拟议的研究还将通过绩效测试来验证新的区块链搜索胶囊将满足医疗保健企业所需的响应能力和规模，这是商业化的关键需求。特别是，该项目将在地理分散网络中建立基准，以延长速度和延迟。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并认为使用基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响审查标准，认为值得通过评估来获得支持。