Blockchain protocols in clinical trials: Transparency and traceability of consent.

ABSTRACT: Clinical trial consent for protocols and their revisions should be transparent for patients and traceable for stakeholders. Our goal is to implement a process allowing for collection of patients' informed consent, which is bound to protocol revisions, storing and tracking the consent in a secure, unfalsifiable and publicly verifiable way, and enabling the sharing of this information in real time. For that, we build a consent workflow using a trending technology called Blockchain. This is a distributed technology that brings a built-in layer of transparency and traceability. From a more general and prospective point of view, we believe Blockchain technology brings a paradigmatical shift to the entire clinical research field. We designed a Proof-of-Concept protocol consisting of time-stampin

SUBMITTER: Benchoufi M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5676196 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature