Data storage, data management, disintegrity , real time data access and data fidelity has been an area of great concern in medical records. The discrepancy seen in healthcare services and providers has been the main cause of the problems arising in the healthcare field. The current technology used in this field can no longer fill up the gap between what is expected and the outcome.
Then what is the solution?
Blockchain
Yes, the Blockchain has the answer to almost every problem we face in using technology for solving any real world problem. The blockchain can solve really hard problem which may not have been done using traditional technology. In recent years we have seen what the potential of blockchain is, and it has been applied in many fields. Then why not it can solve the issues of midecal science. The blockchain in healthcare can issues is the problems of data delinquency, access delays, human alteration. The application of blockchain in healthcare is called Healthereum.
Heathereum targets the issues by developing the plateform in each step of the healthcare process management. It tries to address the needs of an integrated system which can combine all the systems components into a single platform.
Heathereum is a medical record keeping technology platform based on the ethereum’s smart contracts. Present days, all the data medical science generated by doctors, specialist, researchers etc. is scattered on the internet. The private institutions don’t want to share the data produced by them. Hundreds of thousands of institution operates worldwide. Think what can we achieve if we can bring all the data together and process them using data analytics to extract the meaningful insights. It would be useful for researcher to discover the new drugs for the treatment of many diseases.
Recording the generated data is very series issues. Alteration, manipulation, loss of data, disintegrated are the few aspects that makes it difficult to bring together all the data. The data recording using blockchain on healthereum platform will solve the problems because the data stored will be distributed over the network. The security provided by healthereum would not allow any alteration. Integrating all the records on internet will not only just record the data but also it will help to medical practitioners by sharing the process with one another.
The ability to unrestricted interaction, exchange and sharing of data between different system over the blockchain network can fill up the gap between public and private services entities and can bring about new advances to the medical technology. The disparity between care quality, infrastructure and expertise is causing the mismatch between services provided by public or private servies.
The recording and data storage capabilities can be applied safely to patient records, billing, treatment methods and diagnosis. Brining the complete data on decentralized platform will ensure the integrity of the whole platform.
The main issues faced on the integral system are two basic flaws : privacy and security are worked out by the blockchain technology. Because in blockchain ‘write once and read only’, it can ensure the security and privacy both.
So Healthereum is the way ahead in medical technology and wish it will transform the current system.