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Intel's Collaborative Cancer Cloud, an Open Platform For Genome-Based Treatments

Posted by samzenpus on from the finding-a-cure dept.

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.

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  1. fu /. by anapsix · · Score: 1

    wtf slashdot? just lost my entire comment, when data connection was lost as train was going though a tunnel. da faq you internet connection for when I'm filling out a comment form? fuuuuu!

    1. Re:fu /. by dinfinity · · Score: 1

      I think (or hope) he meant that /. sometimes auto-refreshes the page, even when you are still writing a comment. I've had this happen to me recently as well.

  2. Prior art! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    I believe Beijing's got the patent on collaborative cancer clouds.

  3. open source software, yet proprietary hardware by anapsix · · Score: 1, Informative

    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.

  4. Translation by markdavis · · Score: 3, Insightful

    >"its embedded server encryption hardware that tests the authenticity of a platform and its operating system before sharing data"

    Translation: "Use our proprietary hardware and software and forget about using anything open-source like Linux".

    Reminds me a lot of that horrible, crappy "Trusteer" junk that some banks are trying to force on people, especially corporate customers. https://www.trusteer.com/Prote...

  5. "Cancer Cloud" by tsotha · · Score: 4, Insightful

    They really could have come up with a better name. This one makes it sound like something you'd really like to avoid.

    1. Re:"Cancer Cloud" by dinfinity · · Score: 1

      So it's the perfect name for it.

  6. I don't understand by behrooz0az · · Score: 2

    I don't understand how a hardware feature is going to make shit secure.
    How does it stop shoulder surfing, MITM, software bugs, cloning, 100 more things????????//

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  7. Data-Sharing by Etherwalk · · Score: 1

    "by any clinic that want to take part in the Collaborative Cancer Cloud or to build its own data-sharing network with healthcare partners."

    Oh, yeah, because my local clinic's tech guy is TOTALLY going to do that with good data security practices.

  8. WOW!!! crazy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    Look at how many comments are posted here, and how many are positive?
    this is ground-breaking stuff and yet no one realy cares..
    Lets compare this to um .. the Ashley Madison article, which has 100's more..
    What a damn shame..