Question 1

What’s the difference between myLaminin and other document storage and sharing services?

Accepted Answer

myLaminin believes that simple storage and eSignature capabilities are not enough.

While we deliver these capabilities with the same rigor and security, we believe it’s important to leverage these functions in a way that allows an enterprise to support its unique workflow with its clients and other value chain participants without having to rely on constrained, internal IT resources or dated legacy systems.

More importantly, because myLaminin is blockchain-enabled, we can deliver more advanced features such as verifiable credentials, digital wallets, and Tokenomics.

This positions an organization to deliver a better and more advanced client service experience and outcomes.

Question 2

How does myLaminin help Principal Investigators (PIs)  in their data management responsibilities?

Accepted Answer

myLaminin gives PIs complete control over their research data governance. PIs can automate the request/receipt of data-sharing agreements, NDAs, and participant consent forms through the myLaminin platform. They also have the ability to manage access to all research data sets or subsets of it for team members and external collaborators and can 'publish' or make available data sets as they choose where research grants warrant it. Going forward, we will deliver more capabilities such as publishing and distributed peer reviews and access to underlying research data.

Question 3

How does myLaminin support university or research-intensive institution administrators?

Accepted Answer

myLaminin reduces the risk of data loss and/or data breaches as well as reduces operational inefficiencies in traditional research data management practices that exists between PIs, their teams, external collaborators, research legal services, research ethics boards, and research librarians.

By leveraging the security and immutability of blockchain to deliver a robust reporting and audit trail of all research data activity, malicious actions are substantially deterred. This provides a massive improvement over current practices and solutions and mitigates the reputational damage that can be incurred for the researchers, their teams, and the institution.

Question 4

I’m an independent researcher. What do I need to do to use your service?

Accepted Answer

We are making our service available to independent researchers shortly. Independent researchers will soon be able to start using our solution in literally minutes. Our onboarding process consists of these 4 easy steps:
Complete the registration process.
Establish your research project.
Invite your team members, external collaborators, and participants.
Manage access to your research data repository.

That's it. You and your team can be up and running very quickly.

Question 5

Where is the data stored?

Accepted Answer

myLaminin was designed to use client-managed and securely-stored documents either on-premises or in cloud storage services such as AWS’ S3 or Azure Blobs. We don’t store documents on-chain. Instead, we generate hashes that uniquely tie an on-chain asset, token, or transaction to off-chain data.

Some of our clients choose to host their data on their data centers and we have worked with them to integrate our service to use these data storage services. Users are not even aware of the difference.

More information on this mechanism can be found here: Kaleido Document Exchange Service.

Question 6

How does the institutional onboarding process differ?

Accepted Answer

Institutional onboarding can be done within 15 minutes!

Institutions need only identify Principal Investigators (PIs) that should be invited to the platform. If they would like to take advantage of Research Legal Services (RLS) or Research Ethics Board (REB) integrations, they merely need to identify the RLS and REB administrators that are to receive system notifications and will support PIs and their teams.

For institutional researchers, the next step in the process is identical to that described above for independent researchers.

Question 7

How does myLaminin support large file transfers into or out of the myLaminin platform?

Accepted Answer

For large file transfers in or out of the myLaminin platform, myLaminin can leverage the Globus file transfer capabilities to provide an integrated file transfer capability with the right security, rigour, and auditing expected of world-class RDM platforms.

Question 8

What kind of audit trail capabilities does myLaminin provide?

Accepted Answer

myLaminin has a robust and realtime audit trail that tracks every action taken within the research project by all members of the team. Every transaction is recorded with details of the user, action undertaken, date, and time. This audit trail is fully searchable, sortable, and filterable by transaction type allowing users to quickly understand who did what when and on what objects. More importantly, all actions - whether inadvertently or maliciously undertaken - can be reversed by the PI or RA (Research Administrator) through their access to the recycle bin.

Question 9

How is team collaboration facilitated?

Accepted Answer

myLaminin facilitates collaboration by providing a consistent user interface to all research participants, regardless of their physical location. Simultaneous users are alerted to the fact that their colleagues are in the research data repository by the presence of their avatars and they can coordinate activities on the research data set in real time.

Question 10

How does myLaminin support agreements and eSignatures?

Accepted Answer

myLaminin has integrated Adobe Acrobat Sign into our platform and allows teams to load documents that need to be sent to team members and external collaborators, such as NDAs, consent forms, data and IP-sharing agreements, for signature. These forms are tracked by myLaminin and the PI and/or RA have the discretion to restrict access to the research data set until such time as agreements are signed.

Question 11

What tools/capabilities does myLaminin have to support FAIR and Open Science principles?

Accepted Answer

myLaminin has a Publishing module that allows Principal Investigators (PIs) to identify datasets they want to publish, document these datasets according to DataCite, DDI, or Dublin Core Metadata standards, and publish those datasets to one of the following repositories:
Harvard Dataverse
Borealis
myLaminin Open Science Search

Question 12

Does myLaminin support the Research Librarian role in this activity?

Accepted Answer

Yes. For organizational subscribers, the PI can forward a dataset to the appropriate Research Librarian for review and confirmation of the accuracy and completeness of the posting and associated metadata.

Once this review is completed, the PI can then post this dataset to one of the repositories listed above.

Question 13

What IoMT integration does myLaminin support?

Accepted Answer

myLaminin gives PIs the capability to map IoMT data received from any device to a standard HL7 FHIR (Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources) standard and store that information in our secure Research Data Management (RDM) repository.

Additionally, myLaminin allows for that data to be passed through to a participant's EMR using the FHIR protocols.

Question 14

How does myLaminin support dataset publishing?

Accepted Answer

The myLaminin Publishing module allows a PI to drag and drop files and datasets directly from the project data repository for publishing. myLaminin supports versioning of datasets as well as selection of either DataCite, DDI, or Dublin Core metadata standards. Our platform supports the critical role of the research librarian in the review of each dataset for completion and accuracy of metadata prior to publication and allows the PI to publish their dataset to Harvard Dataverse, Borealis, or myLaminin's Open Science Search.

Question 15

How does myLaminin support IoMT (medical device) data?

Accepted Answer

myLaminin supports data collection from IoMT (medical devices) by allows teams to map device data to HL7 FHIR protocol standards, store that data securely with role-based access controls, and to send that participant data to their EMR record.

Question 16

Does myLaminin have dashboard reporting capabilities tailored to a user's role?

Accepted Answer

Yes, myLaminin has institutional and role-based dashboard reports specific to each module. For example, for IRB/REB, various role-based dashboard reports are available for REB Administrators, and Board Chairs as well as counts of overdue activities at each stage of the review cycle by type.

Question 17

How can myLaminin support DT processes?

Accepted Answer

myLaminin can support Digital Twin efforts or platforms by addressing the many important administrative and privacy issues surrounding these new technological capabilities.

For example, myLaminin can address the important client consent, secure management of PHI data such as secure management of raw data from Genomic sequencing (FASTQ files) and Medical Imaging (DICOM), the comparison between Digital Twin predictions and actual results, and the important validation and publishing of the complete protocol (Consent, Raw Data, DT Prediction, and Clinical Result) into a FAIR-compliant dataset with a DOI making the study citable in a medical journal.

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