Health Data Provenance Challenge

Deadline: 2017-05-22
Award: $60,000

The “Oh, the Places Data Goes: Health Data Provenance” Challenge seeks to identify the current capabilities and methods used by industry to convey the provenance of health data as it is used to support clinical care. Under this challenge, organizations will be provided the opportunity to win funding to develop and test solutions related to the provenance of health data.

As the movement of health information increases among consumers and providers, so does the need to track data provenance with each information update and/or exchange event. According to W3C, “provenance is information about entities, activities, and people involved in producing a piece of data or thing, which can be used to form assessments about its quality, reliability or trustworthiness.” The requirements for data provenance information must support the full lifecycle and lifespan of health data. Confidence in the authenticity, trustworthiness, and reliability of the health data being moved is fundamental to patient safety as well as secure health information exchange.