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