ARBoR: an identity and security solution for clinical reporting.

ABSTRACT:

Motivation

Clinical genome sequencing laboratories return reports containing clinical testing results, signed by a board-certified clinical geneticist, to the ordering physician. This report is often a PDF, but can also be a paper copy or a structured data file. The reports are frequently modified and reissued due to changes in variant interpretation or clinical attributes.

Materials and methods

To precisely track report authenticity, we developed ARBoR (Authenticated Resources in a Hashed Block Registry), an application for tracking the authenticity and lineage of versioned clinical reports even when they are distributed as PDF or paper copies. ARBoR tracks clinical reports as cryptographically signed hash blocks in an electronic ledger file, which is then exactly replicate

SUBMITTER: Venner E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6798556 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature