Health X Change
Creating a platform for patients to regain control over their health data, receiving compensation through a token system, while improving pharmaceutical companies' R&D and patient engagement.User Review
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Reviewed on 13 Feb 2024 06:00 PM
Projects should directly support the mission of DeSci to innovate scientific research by exploring novel mechanisms of funding, conducting, and disseminating scientific research in an open, inclusive, and accessible manner.
Health X Change proposes to provide transparency and fair compensation for the use of individuals' health data, which aligns with the mission of DeSci to make the scientific process open and inclusive. The project seeks to innovate in the domain of patient data control and pharmaceutical R&D, which is a form of conducting and disseminating scientific research.
DeSci projects most commonly support this mission by building and testing necessary technological infrastructure, but projects may also be eligible if they are deploying existing DeSci infrastructure in a scientific research context or if they are educating and recruiting members of the scientific community to contribute to the mission.
Health X Change is developing a platform to enable patients to have control over their health data and provide it to pharmaceutical companies in exchange for compensation. This can be seen as building and testing new technological infrastructure within a scientific research context.
Concrete examples of issues covered by the DeSci mission include: the data reproducibility crisis and archaic data sharing practices; misaligned incentives and poor practices in scientific publishing and peer review; financial, linguistic, and academic barriers to globally inclusive research; intellectual property, patents, and financial incentives to trade progress for profits; academic disconnect and poor science/health literacy and trust in the lay public and government representatives.
Health X Change is addressing data sharing practices and misaligned incentives by creating a mechanism for transparent and fair compensation. However, it is unclear how it addresses other issues like data reproducibility, the publishing and peer review process, and barriers to inclusive research. It also does not clearly indicate how it would handle intellectual property and patents.
Projects must satisfy the Gitcoin Program General Eligibility Policy in addition to the requirements described above.
Without specific details regarding the project's alignment with the Gitcoin Program General Eligibility Policy, it cannot be conclusively determined if Health X Change complies with all the general requirements.