Machine learning advancements in healthcare have made data collected through smartphones and wearable devices a vital source of public health and medical insights.While wearable device data help to monitor,detect,and ...Machine learning advancements in healthcare have made data collected through smartphones and wearable devices a vital source of public health and medical insights.While wearable device data help to monitor,detect,and predict diseases and health conditions,some data owners hesitate to share such sensitive data with companies or researchers due to privacy concerns.Moreover,wearable devices have been recently available as commercial products;thus large,diverse,and representative datasets are not available to most researchers.In this article,the authors propose an open marketplace where wearable device users securely monetize their wearable device records by sharing data with consumers(e.g.,researchers)to make wearable device data more available to healthcare researchers.To secure the data transactions in a privacy-preserving manner,the authors use a decentralized approach using Blockchain and Non-Fungible Tokens(NFTs).To ensure data originality and integrity with secure validation,the marketplace uses Trusted Execution Environments(TEE)in wearable devices to verify the correctness of health data.The marketplace also allows researchers to train models using Federated Learning with a TEE-backed secure aggregation of data users may not be willing to share.To ensure user participation,we model incentive mechanisms for the Federated Learning-based and anonymized data-sharing approaches using NFTs.The authors also propose using payment channels and batching to reduce smart contact gas fees and optimize user profits.If widely adopted,it’s believed that TEE and Blockchain-based incentives will promote the ethical use of machine learning with validated wearable device data in healthcare and improve user participation due to incentives.展开更多
The opioid crisis has impacted the lives of millions of Americans.Digital technology has been applied in both research and clinical practice to mitigate this public health emergency.Blockchain technology has been impl...The opioid crisis has impacted the lives of millions of Americans.Digital technology has been applied in both research and clinical practice to mitigate this public health emergency.Blockchain technology has been implemented in healthcare and other industries outside of cryptocurrency,with few studies exploring its utility in dealing with the opioid crisis.This paper explores a novel application of blockchain technology and its features to increase uptake of medications for opioid use disorder.展开更多
文摘Machine learning advancements in healthcare have made data collected through smartphones and wearable devices a vital source of public health and medical insights.While wearable device data help to monitor,detect,and predict diseases and health conditions,some data owners hesitate to share such sensitive data with companies or researchers due to privacy concerns.Moreover,wearable devices have been recently available as commercial products;thus large,diverse,and representative datasets are not available to most researchers.In this article,the authors propose an open marketplace where wearable device users securely monetize their wearable device records by sharing data with consumers(e.g.,researchers)to make wearable device data more available to healthcare researchers.To secure the data transactions in a privacy-preserving manner,the authors use a decentralized approach using Blockchain and Non-Fungible Tokens(NFTs).To ensure data originality and integrity with secure validation,the marketplace uses Trusted Execution Environments(TEE)in wearable devices to verify the correctness of health data.The marketplace also allows researchers to train models using Federated Learning with a TEE-backed secure aggregation of data users may not be willing to share.To ensure user participation,we model incentive mechanisms for the Federated Learning-based and anonymized data-sharing approaches using NFTs.The authors also propose using payment channels and batching to reduce smart contact gas fees and optimize user profits.If widely adopted,it’s believed that TEE and Blockchain-based incentives will promote the ethical use of machine learning with validated wearable device data in healthcare and improve user participation due to incentives.
基金This work was supported by the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health under Grant 4R33AT010606-03 and National Institute on Drug Abuse.
文摘The opioid crisis has impacted the lives of millions of Americans.Digital technology has been applied in both research and clinical practice to mitigate this public health emergency.Blockchain technology has been implemented in healthcare and other industries outside of cryptocurrency,with few studies exploring its utility in dealing with the opioid crisis.This paper explores a novel application of blockchain technology and its features to increase uptake of medications for opioid use disorder.