Syndication-based data security.  Jonathan Hare's Resilient Trust Networks is the second data security shop here that's trying to balance the weight of patients' need for information against their need for privacy. Resilient uses a syndication model: it moves the data of one group of people (or system, or service) into a network that includes information or "intelligence" of other groups. Then it brokers information to other relevant information in the network, at arms length from the original groups, so the parties no longer need to worry about violating identities or privacy policies. Hare has heavyweight talent, and the language here is a little above our pay grade, but what we call "blind-matching" (this patient: that trial), Resilient calls "trust-brokering" with "zero-knowledge protocols." With partners like these, Resilient could also be used to help disparate software systems talk to each other, a boon the healthcare industry's interoperability issues. Hare is a serial entrepreneur of the software applications industry (he founded Consilient and Evolve), but he found him through powerbroker David Brailer. Hare has been a member of the Health IT Standards Panel's Security and Privacy Technical Committee and of the Markle Foundation Personal Health Technology Council (with  Adam Bosworth).

Dr. Brailer, on Mr. Hare: "He is one of the true innovators in healthcare with a spark and an imagination for how [we] could do something in a way that hasn’t been done before. I collect these people."