[ANN] BurstIQ (BIQ)💚 💢 💚 ▐ A Marketplace for Health Data & Services▐ 💚 💢 💚

[coin@coin]

I've seen the LifeGraph and Health Singularity mentioned in the whitepaper...

Could you elaborate on them? What is the vision? And why they matter?

Health Singularity is the idea that healthcare will soon be personalized down to each individual. Providers will no longer create treatment plans based on a particular diagnosis, or even based on similar groups of people with a particular diagnosis. They’ll be able to create a treatment plan that is specifically tailored for you, based on everything about you: your genomic and proteomic profile, your medical history, your family’s medical history, your lifestyle, etc.

But there are two things that have to be in place in order for Health Singularity to become a reality. First, the system needs to have enough data about each person that it can create a complete picture of that person – the more data is included, the more personalized the care can be. Second, there needs to be a complete profile for tens of thousands, or even millions of other people, so the system can find hidden trends and build predictive models. The more people are in the system, the more accurate the predictive models will be, and the more personalized care can become.

So here’s where LifeGraphs come in. The BurstIQ platform builds a LifeGraph for each person. The LifeGraph brings together data from all sorts of different sources: your primary care provider, your specialist doctors, that ER you visited once when you were on vacation, your dentist, your psychiatrist, your pharmacy, your pedometer, your glucometer… it can even pull in data from your social network accounts, if you choose to add those. By bringing together all of this data from different sources, the platform creates a complete picture of you – your LifeGraph. The more data is in each LifeGraph, and the more LifeGraphs there are, the closer we get to being able to achieve the Health Singularity.

Thanks for the extensive and prompt reply, appreciated, helps me a lot to understand.

I have a couple more questions in light of recent security breaches not only with health data but with data in general (read Equifax):

What sort of emerging trends and challenges exist around health data security and breaches?

How is BurstIQ seeking to address these concerns?

[BurstIQcorpdev]

Thanks for the extensive and prompt reply, appreciated, helps me a lot to understand.

I have a couple more questions in light of recent security breaches not only with health data but with data in general (read Equifax):

What sort of emerging trends and challenges exist around health data security and breaches?

How is BurstIQ seeking to address these concerns?

Sure, that's what we're here for. Equifax is a biggie, especially considering the number of profiles they manage and how much data they have on each person. Breaches are definitely a big problem in the healthcare industry - healthcare systems in particular are a big target for hackers because they have so much sensitive data and EMRs and patient portals have a lot of vulnerabilities. Historically, healthcare data was stolen for personal identity theft - a medical record can be worth as much as $1,000 on the black market. However, we are seeing a shift from identity theft to ransomware, where hackers are locking up entire systems of health data and extracting millions of dollars in order to restore access.

As more and more data is incorporated into the healthcare system and as access points (such as patient portals) become more widespread, the pace of these incidents will accelerate. The Health Care Industry Cybersecurity Task Force, established by the Department of Health and Human Services, indicated in their report to Congress that the healthcare industry isn’t prepared for this cyber onslaught. Most health systems focus on establishing traditional perimeter security solutions (e.g., firewalls). However, the mandate to enable people to access their data via patient portals creates security gaps that hackers can easily exploit.

Our team’s 65+ years of experience building secure networks and cybersecurity solutions for the U.S. Military and other government agencies provides us with a skill set that few others in the health IT industry can match. Rather than developing the platform and then addressing security after the fact, the BurstIQ platform was built from the ground up with security in mind. Security features are embedded into each data element and into the core platform architecture, which means security isn’t solely dependent on perimeter solutions and application-level security features. Because ownership rules are built into each data element, someone who is not an owner (or is explicitly permissioned by a Consent Contract) is simply unable to view the data. In addition, the platform’s decentralized design keeps data constantly in motion, increasing resistance to single-node and multi-node cyber attacks.

[bitcoinjames6]

Hey Guys - I wanted to ask you what are BurstIQ's goals regarding contribution to the areas of medical research and major pharma clinical studies? Any timelines on working with major pharmaceutical brands and disclosing which companies you are planning to work with?

[brian.jackson]

Why ICO for BurstIQ? is there a particularly unique use case for the token?

Don't mean to be respectful, there are a lot of these lately and most are thinking to raise money first and leverage blockchain later. Otherwise there are many other companies who are also reclaiming patient health data back to the patients. What makes you guys different?

Thanks for your comment.  We did not add block chain tech to our platform for a ICO.  We had block chain in the tech from the very beginning.  There are a lot of ICO's out there that are trying to add block chain into their tech right now for that very reason.  Several of them really make no sense.

Another big difference between us and several of the other token offerings is that we have a built platform and have several enterprise customers.  We have been around for almost 3 years and are currently producing revenue which should give investors confidence that our token will be around in the future and provide great value.

Please take a look at a few of these articles that were written about BurstIQ well over a year ago when ICO's really weren't around talking about the BurstIQ platform running block chain.

http://gazette.com/colorado-springs-startup-makes-individual-medical-records-safe-in-the-cloud/article/1577752

http://startupbeat.com/2016/06/hacking-worlds-wicked-problems/

[dboss]

Hey I have a question.

How does BurstIQ hope to improve patient access to health care and services, especially outside of the United States? A lot of my family lives outside of the United States and I know they could really benefit from this program!

[BurstIQcorpdev]

Hey Guys - I wanted to ask you what are BurstIQ's goals regarding contribution to the areas of medical research and major pharma clinical studies? Any timelines on working with major pharmaceutical brands and disclosing which companies you are planning to work with?

Hi bitcoinjames6, we are definitely planning on working with medical research and major pharma companies. We currently have a relationship with UCHealth CARE Innovation Center (on the Anschutz Medical Campus) on the research side. Once the consumer interface is launched, we plan to engage with several major pharma companies. We're staggering the engagements this way on purpose - the biggest interest from pharma companies will be access to individuals - both for marketing of existing treatments and for clinical trial recruitment. So we want to make sure we have consumers on the platform before we bring on pharma companies.

But there are several major draws for academic researchers, pharma and biotech to a platform like ours:

First, the platform allows academic researchers, commercial researchers and CROs to directly reach people who fit the participant profile for their study. Typically, researchers find study participants in one of two ways: they either advertise the study on general channels (e.g., on the Internet) and hope that people will see it and contact them; or, providers and clinical research coordinators identify potential participants and talk with them about the opportunity. With the BurstIQ platform, researchers can query the system to find people who fit a certain medical, genomic or other profile. The system will return a list of people who fit that profile and have “opted-in” to learn about research. Then they can reach out to those people directly. This saves researchers a huge amount of time, energy and expense.

Second, the platform allows researchers to access large data sets far more easily than would otherwise be possible. Usually, researchers download data from multiple repositories separately. Often, this means additional cost and a lengthy contract process. Then the researcher has to parse and clean and standardize that data before they can even start the actual research. The whole process can take months. The BurstIQ platform allows researchers to access large data sets with one API, and the data is already parsed, cleaned and standardized.

Third, because the platform enables machine intelligence and deep learning, researchers can do more with the data. Associations and trends can be uncovered that lead to new discoveries, study participant profiles can be refined and stratified, treatments can be applied with more specificity, and data about human behavior and other non-medical factors can inform clinical studies.

Fourth, commercial biotech and pharma companies can market products directly to highly receptive audiences. Instead of mass outreach through print, online and TV advertising, companies can identify people who fit the medical profile for a particular drug and offer discounts or rebates directly to those individuals.

Fifth, the platform allows researchers to find others who are working in similar fields and collaborate. Research results can be shared with other researchers without compromising intellectual property rights or the privacy of the individuals participating in the study.

And finally, the BurstIQ platform eliminates the need for intermediary CTMS systems that act as a liaison between health system EHRs and biopharma companies’ clinical data repositories. These intermediary CTMS systems are often rife with missing or incorrect data, and correcting or preventing these mistakes requires significant manual labor and training.

In terms of disclosing who we're working with, we'll make those announcements when the partnerships are finalized.

[BurstIQcorpdev]

Hey I have a question.

How does BurstIQ hope to improve patient access to health care and services, especially outside of the United States? A lot of my family lives outside of the United States and I know they could really benefit from this program!

Hi! The platform allows anyone, anywhere to access health-related products and services. So for example, a person in Thailand could use telemedicine on the platform to have a virtual appointment with a specialist in London, or donate their data to a research project in Brazil. The only limitation will be what is required by regional or national laws and regulations (e.g., licensure), and the platform will manage all of that automatically.

[stoppi]

1.000.000.000 tokens at 0,12$.
So you actually want to raise $120 million in your presale+ico?

[BurstIQ]

Good Afternoon everyone!

We would like to thank Robert Neivert for mentioning BurstIQ and our crowdsale in his article outlining current trends in crowdsourcing.
His article can be found here

As always, don't forget to join our Slack and Telegram groups for sale queries and support:

Slack: https://slack.burstiq.com
Telegram: https://t.me/burstiq

[fathamburger]

Thanks for the replies guys. Extremely educational on how valuable our health data is and where we don't even know where we could be monetizing it ourselves. The only obstacle there is making it easy for others or I guess "healthcare integrations".

Just like many fail to secure their crypto wallet addresses now properly or just prefer to leave it up to an exchange, are you going to be providing rights management solutions? it seems like you would as part of any integrations with HMO's , clinical trial providers etc and for "one click signups" etc.

Have you started talks with any of the bigger players like Aetna or BlueCross?

[autolove2]

Hello
When you ll calculate second week? (signature bounty) 
Thanks

[brian.jackson]

Thanks for the replies guys. Extremely educational on how valuable our health data is and where we don't even know where we could be monetizing it ourselves. The only obstacle there is making it easy for others or I guess "healthcare integrations".

Just like many fail to secure their crypto wallet addresses now properly or just prefer to leave it up to an exchange, are you going to be providing rights management solutions? it seems like you would as part of any integrations with HMO's , clinical trial providers etc and for "one click signups" etc.

Have you started talks with any of the bigger players like Aetna or BlueCross?

Thanks for the comment.  We are going to have a massive announcement in the next few days relating to your question.  Once the paperwork is finalized we will be able to share all the info publicly.  Please stay tuned.

[frcat]

I think here no one ( investors or bounty) will get anything. Very strange project.

[brian.jackson]

I think here no one ( investors or bounty) will get anything. Very strange project.

Thanks for the comment.  Yes, we had a few hiccups on the bounty program of which we hired a bounty agent.  We are not experts in token bounty programs, but what we are experts in is running successful companies, SaaS healthcare platforms, blockchain, and several other non healthcare platforms.  It's been amazing how much interest we have already had in purchasing tokens.  The public pre sales open up tomorrow.

Everyone will receive their bounties.

We are one of the few ICO's that have a working platform, have been around for for almost 3 years, have a patent around our idea, have a large working industry advisory board, and have several large scale customers on the platform already.  Please take a look at a few post from our customers websites.

Current university hospitals are

uchealth https://www.uchealth.org/
University of Colorado Hospital
BurstIQ started integration with uchealth in Q1 of 2016.
uchealth lists us as a partner on their website http://www.cucareinnovation.com/care-portfolio/

UTMB https://www.utmb.edu/
The University of Texas Medical Branch
BurstIQ started integration with UTMB in Q4 of 2016.

We are also working with COLS and CU Anschutz Medical Campus
Colorado Longitudinal Study http://www.coloradolongitudinalstudy.org/
COLS  list us as partner on their website http://www.coloradolongitudinalstudy.org/information-technology-informatics/



The (2) new large hospitals that we have just started new integrations with in August of 2017, we are hoping to have a press release in the next few weeks.

We also have a partnership with two other large healthcare organizations to run integrations with the BurstIQ platform.

CORHIO
Colorado Regional Health Information Organization
http://www.corhio.org/
Partnership info https://101010.net/10-10-10-announces-first-of-its-kind-data-repository-to-support-health-innovation-entrepreneurs-2

CIVHC
Center for Improving Value in Health Care
http://www.civhc.org/
Partnership info http://www.denverpost.com/2017/05/31/denvers-10-10-10-event-fix-cities/

[Lauren Smith]

Shit I missed out on the bounty. Will there be more ?

The way you answer the questions people have asked you is really good and thorough. Most Deva don't do this. Some even if or questions which doesn't look good on them. Maybe this is a project worth keeping my eye on ? Let's see.

[BurstIQ]

Good day everyone!

"One company, BurstIQ, is applying the utility token model to the health care data space. Individuals can use the BurstIQ platform to create a personal LifeGraph^TM, which brings together medical records, pharmacy information, health app data, and any other data that the user wants to consolidate into a single view."

-Equity.com


Check out the rest here!

[brian.jackson]

Public Pre Sales for BIQ token start tomorrow.  For more info please visit us at:

https://biq.burstiq.com/

[frcat]

Shit I missed out on the bounty. Will there be more ?

The way you answer the questions people have asked you is really good and thorough. Most Deva don't do this. Some even if or questions which doesn't look good on them. Maybe this is a project worth keeping my eye on ? Let's see.

Its some joke?  
look at their bounty thread and spreadsheets. They didnt anything and didnt count anything for all time. People working for free here, I think. And investors probably also only spent money.

[brian.jackson]

Shit I missed out on the bounty. Will there be more ?

The way you answer the questions people have asked you is really good and thorough. Most Deva don't do this. Some even if or questions which doesn't look good on them. Maybe this is a project worth keeping my eye on ? Let's see.

Thanks for the comments.  We have very high hopes for this crowdsale as well.

[brian.jackson]

The BurstIQ offical public Pre Sales Crowdsale will start today very shortly.  As with all Crowdsales there are going to be scammers.  BurstIQ will not be offering any tokens from anyone or any site other then the official site of https://www.burstiq.com or the official token site of https://biq.burstiq.com. If you receive an offer from a person or any other website other then a burstiq.com domain, it is not a valid offer or contract.  If you have issues or concerns please email info@burstiq.com