Dr. Tim Mackey: Leveraging Blockchain Technology to Enable Indigenous Data Sovereignty of Genomic Data

Dr. Mackey discussed a project funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation in partnership with The Native Biodata Consortium to develop a blockchain-based governance system for managing Indigenous genomic data. […]

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Dr. Xiaoqian Jiang: Sensitive Data Detection with High-Throughput Machine Learning Models in Electronic Health Records

Dr. Jiang explored how a groundbreaking discovery was utilized to generate 30 metadata-based features through machine learning for the automatic detection of PHI fields in structured Electronic Health Record (EHR) data. […]

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Dr. Bradley Malin: One Size Does Not Fit All: How to Build Respectful Cohorts for Biomedical Data Science

Dr. Malin drew upon examples from large-scale data-driven projects like the EMR and bio-repository at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, the eMERGE consortium of the NIH, and the All of Us Research Program, aiming to create a comprehensive database of EMRs, genome sequences, and mHealth records from one million Americans. […]

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