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Intel's Collaborative Cancer Cloud, an Open Platform For Genome-Based Treatments
Lucas123 writes: Intel and the Knight Cancer Institute have announced what will be an open-source service platform, called the Collaborative Cancer Cloud. The platform will enable healthcare facilities to securely share patient genomic data, radiological imagery and other healthcare-related information for precision treatment analysis. Key to averting HIPAA privacy issues will be Intel's Trusted Execution Technology, its embedded server encryption hardware that tests the authenticity of a platform and its operating system before sharing data. Intel said it will be opening that technology up for use by any clinic that want to take part in the Collaborative Cancer Cloud or to build its own data-sharing network with healthcare partners. Dr. Brian Druker, director of the Knight Cancer Institute, said the Trusted Execution Technology will allow healthcare centers to maintain control of patient data, while also allowing clinics around the world to use it for vastly faster genomic analysis.
According to an engineer giving talk on collaboration of companies involved with Intel's CCC, they are going to open-source it, yet it's all running on proprietary hardware. He made a point that Intel is not making any money on this and doing it for the sake of humanity.. Except you'd need proprietary hardware manufactured by Intel.. some of which has no drivers yet. hmm.. Also, I wonder how they deal with exporting health data across international bordets, since some compan(y|ies) are Canada-based.