The New Kid on the Block: How Blockchain Can Revolutionize Access to Healthcare Data

The following is a guest article by Guy Tish, Co-Founder and CTO at Briya. Data is the bread and butter of the digital health industry. Researchers and caregivers must be able to access high quality and up-to-date information securely. This is key to accelerating time to medicine, developing new treatments and providing better care. But where does this information come from? The truth is that patient data is scattered across multiple locations and there is no one central database that conveniently stores it all in one place. There is a very good reason for this – healthcare records contain highly sensitive information, including details of our personal lives, ailments, and habits. While pooling our data together into central systems might seem efficient, it poses severe risks to data privacy and security. So how, despite these challenges, can we still piece together all the medical data we need without resorting to centralized solutions? The answer lies in decentralization. Decentralization is a powerful tool that can allow us to access fragmented data efficiently and securely. This is made possible by blockchain technology. A blockchain is a decentralized  system that generates and stores data records. It maintains a digital ledger of connected “blocks” of information that represent how data is shared, changed, or accessed. In the ledgers supporting Smart Contracts, or in any decentralized autonomous organization (DAO), rules guiding the transactions or data trans...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - Category: Information Technology Authors: Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Interoperability AI Artificial Intelligence Briya DAO DApps data Decentralized Applications Decentralized Autonomous Organization Digital Health Guy Tish Healthcare Blockchain Healthcare DApps Source Type: blogs