Current Problems Of Healthcare Information System.
A good record of a patient's health information is a very useful tool both to the patients and the medical health professionals as it helps to catch human error, track therapies, monitor effectiveness of treatments, and make predictions about outcomes throughout the entire course of a patient’s lifetime.
However, the current healthcare information system seems very bad and inefficient in this aspect due to the fact that it lacks interoperability, that is; transferring a patient's information from one hospital to another is not possible, especially when such information is needed urgently at the other hospital. In a case whereby a patient visits more than one hospital, there can be an hurdle of obtaining information from a previous hospital such patient visits, especially when the result a test carried out at the previous hospital is needed.
Inability to easily obtain such information could lead to repeating that same test that was previously done in the previous hospital and this is a disadvantage to the doctor or any other medical practitioner involved, as it slows down the medical processes putting the patient's life at risk. Also, another amount of money is incurred in the test processes.
The centralization of patients' medical information around medical institutions shows
These issues boil down to the fact that a patient cannot easily access his/her medical information for an urgent use, there is little trust in data credibility, and exposure to high risk of personal information leakage is inevitable. How can you know where you’re going if you don’t know where you’ve been? Medibloc is making this possible through the use of blockchain technology!!! Yeah, blockchain utilization in the health sector.
Medibloc Giving Full Control Of Your Medical Records
It's never possible to know where you are going without knowing where you are coming from as far as one's health is concerned.
Let's recap the importance of having one's medical records as a patient.
Keeping track of and documenting one's medical history is very important, but seems more important for individuals with developmental disabilities because;
• People with developmental disabilities often see many doctors and take many medications. However, documenting their medical histories and keeping them up-to-date, individuals can make the work of each of their doctors easier by enabling them to know what others are doing, which in turn helps to avoid dangerous medication interactions.
• In the case of those(patients) with developmental disabilities who have difficulty in
communicating verbally, a well presented medical history ensures easy and quick access to the needed information by health care professionals for the provision of proper treatment, especially in an emergency.
• It serves as hint to a medical practitioner by exposing him to which medications a patient takes, at the same time enabling him to provide assistance with self-administration of medications.
• It also enables him to know if an individual is allergic to certain medications so that he can be assisted to avoid those things he is allergic to. This also ensures provision of proper first aid to a patient as those things he is allergic to are known already, so special care can be taken.
• Respond to an emergency – keeping a medical history in an easily accessible location enables quick sharing of information with an emergency personnel quickly ensuring that paramedics and emergency room doctors qre provided with all the information needed (such as allergies, medications, and diagnoses) to treat the person’s condition in the best way.
• Also, having an adequate knowledge of a person’s past conditions, it is possible to deduce whether the symptoms they complain of are part of an already diagnosed illness or brand new issues. For instance, if a patient was diagnosed with asthma in a recent time and later noticed of having trouble breathing, it is possible to know he needed to be given an inhaler, but if an individual who has never been diagnosed with asthma begins to cough or wheeze, it might be needed to take such person to the hospital for diagnosis.
However, this information is not easily accessible to patients. How then do they get it?
The New Horizon To Which Medibloc Will Take Us
Medibloc is a medical data platform born out of need and currently developing it's own blockchain with the vision of giving patients the full control of their medical data thereby enabling them an immediate access to it.
The fact that patients have immediate access to their medical history just by a single click means 
simplification of any medical processes for which it is needed for since doctors now have all the crucial information needed to maximize the care that can be provided to such patients; it helps doctors to know where they are going since they now have the medical history of the patients.
Also, Medibloc through the use of MED tokens will enable patients to monetize their medical information by selling them to people, especially those who need them for medical researches. They retain the rights to choose who to share their information with.
Medibloc will help to solve the problem of centralization of medical information, security, interoperability, accessibility and other associated ones.
Some of the important features of Medibloc platform
• Provision Of Maximum Security Regarding The Use Of The Platform
In accordance with the "HIPAA" privacy rules, it is very crucial to keep all medical information about a patient confidential. However, the current state of keeping healthcare information is centralized while giving the work of data keeping to an individual who could expose or leak the information intended to be kept safe. However, Medibloc, through the utilization of blockchain technology will ensure that this act of leakage is halted by transferring the full rights of information holding to patients, who could only share the information to whoever he wants to share it with. This will subsequently leads to a drastic reduction in the number of people involved in the collection of private healthcare data and also helps to lower the risk of leakage.
• The Information From The Platform Can Be Relied On
The current healthcare data storage is obviously a centralized one since it is only governed by a central body, that is; the health center in which the information is kept. However through the use of blockchain technology, Medibloc is building a decentralized platform for the proper storage of data, and they will continuously generate backup data, verify the integrity of such data and in the case of modulations, the original data will be easily recovered from the backed up one. To maintain the integrity and reliability of data stored on this platform, users are not given the opportunity to easily delete or modify such data stored on MediBloc.
In addition to making information on this platform reliable, only verified medical practitioners will be given the authority to view the healthcare data of another person. The verification of such medical practitioners will be carried out through the healthcare provider’s credential system which will be confirmed on the blockchain.
• High level of Transparency Is Maintained
Every activity taking place on the Medibloc blockchain, ranging from writing, reading or accessing medical information will be
• High Level Of Interoperability
The ability to transfer a medical history of a patient from one hospital to another is another tool that is lacking in the current healthcare system.
API/SDK for diverse formats, starting with the HL7 FHIR(Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources), and also allow anyone to develop a code supporting other formats. With high level of flexibility and scalability as a basis.
• Information Stored On The Platform Can Be Easily Accessed
Considering the hurdles one has to pass through at times in the hospital in a bid to get one's medical history which actually leads to a waste of time and the purpose for which the information is needed for might not be reached. Sometimes, there might even be a long queue of patients trying to obtain their medical history at a hospital that they have to wait for a very long time; during this period, some patients might lose their life and some might even be treated with something they are allergic to which could subsequently leads to their death. However, at just a click of your phone, a patient can quickly and easily access all his medical information which can be used for the purpose it's intended for, especially in case of emergency. This makes the doctor easily get himself acquainted with the information needed about a patient and further steps can be taken on such person without having to harm him. Medibloc makes thia available.
• Patient-centered Healthcare Information System; Medibloc do not only provide the information within a medical institution but also outside the institution which could be helpful in one way or the other during assessment of patients.
All these features made available on the decentralized platform bring about an ultimate change in the way medical information is being used as seen in the current system. They help to bring about an apt disruption or interruption in the current medical system as it has been described above.
In the case of medical research;
Data analysis is a very crucial component of any industry a revolutionary change is needed as it helps in the assessment and evaluation of the progress of such industry. In this manner, medical records are very essential in the health sector especially when research has to be made on on the number of people infected with a particular disease on a yearly basis.
However, access to medical records is very limited due to the privacy laws associated with keeping them confidential. The transfer of the full power or right of medical data over to patients can help to solve this problems as they are given permission to share their health data with whoever pleases them, and this can be done in exchange of MED token.
The unique significance of this is that it maintains the benefits of privacy and at the same time allows users to contribute to critical research.
Significance Of Having Established Partnerships With Major Corporations On The Integration Of Medibloc Once MainNet is launched
The Medibloc's MainNet once launched, will enable live utilization of the platform in such a way that its intended activities will be effectively carried out. However, establishing partnerships with major corporations will go a long way in helping to integrate the system. This corporations will serve as nodes and ensure a proper decentralization of the blockchain thereby ensuring security of members data.
How Digital Medical Data Storage On The Blockchain Is Superior To Traditional Medical Data Storage Methods
• Fragmented Data
Unlike the traditional data storage system in which medical data are fragmented, computer networks help in accurate patient data with the aid of decentralized storage. Using this method of storage, medical data can easily be shared across networks and nodes.
• Timely Access To Patient's Data
The blockchain system facilitates distributed patient's health, helps to secure access to it, and also updates to patient’s shared data are done in real time.
• System Interoperability
The traditional system does not provide any room for the sharing of patient's data. However, the blockchain system provides this through the use of a decentralized Internet and computer networks across boundaries. All these are done with high level of authenticity.
• Data Security
The blockchain, unlike the traditional system of data storage, ensures secured digital transaction which protects patient's identity to the maximum.
• Access and Data Inconsistency
Healthcare enjoys consistent and rule-based method of accessing and analyzing patient's data through the use of Smart Contracts made available on the blockchain.
• Cost Effectiveness
System becomes greatly efficient through real-time processing and reduced transaction costs since the execution of activities is not given to third-party applications is , so there is no time-lag in accessing data.
Medibloc Account Types
Three different account will be made available on medibloc's platform depending on the intended use. We have;
• Account For General Users:
This is an account basically meant for patients' use for easy managements of their medical data and they are given the ability to easily decrypt this account at any convenient time, give access to medical practitioners, and also share data with researchers and insurance agencies.
• Account For Healthcare Providers:
Basically for healthcare providers including hospitals, laboratories and clinics, ensuring users' data sharing that can be relied on, reasons for accessing such data, and the duration for which it is accessed. MediPoints can be earned with this account
• Account For Data Researchers:
This account is only meant for researchers in the field of medicine who need individual's medical data for the execution of an effective research. This will ensure adequate use of individual's data and discourage the misuse of patients data for non-research purposes.
An Outlook Of The Technical Structure Of The Platform
Image gotten from Medibloc Whitepaper, pg 10
The platform currently has in it, three structural layers; First, Second and Third, as shown in the image below...
• MediBloc Core: The capacity of the blockchain is usually restricted. As it grows wider in terms of number of users, there is a need for corresponding increase in its size which is not usually made available in some blockchains. However, the Core layer of Medibloc provides additional capacity to counter human services information misfortune, that is; it makes it scalable to counter this problem.
• MediBloc Service: This enables the use of Smart Contract innovation to create a short agreement between two ends during the process of sharing information. This layer interfaces the Apps layer with the Core layer and considers "information input/yield through association with the Core layer".
• MediBloc Application: This layer enables individuals to use different applications (e.g. portable applications) to get to and deal with the data.
MainNet - MED & MEDX
Image gotten from Medibloc's Whitepaper, pg 10
The Medibloc's platform will make available two tokens for the efficient and effective running of its activities. These two tokens are;MED and MEDX.
The MED token is transferrable and tradable. It is also possible to earn MED points on the platform based on one's contribution. It can also be purchased with the use of MED tokens. The MP however, is not tradable and cannot leave the platform. Nevertheless, the MPs collected can be converted to MED after a three-month reservation period.
Possible Use Case And Implementation
Medibloc will find a very good use in the following as shown in Mediblocs's white paper, section 5, page 23.
• Personal Health Report
• Automated Insurance Claims
• P2P Healthcare Data Market
• Artificial Intelligence & Medical Chatbot
• Clinical Trial
• Telemedicine
• Social Networking Service
Meet The MediBloc's Team
The team is led by Dr. Allen Wookyon Kho, who is the C. E. O, and Dr. Eunsol Lee. However, the team also constitute other enthusiastic members who are expertise in the field of medicine and engineering.
RoadMap Of The Platform
Summary And Conclusion
With respect to the profession of medicine and practice, the use of digital medical records in one's office gives an oversight of what a patient is up to and lowers liability or unecessary waste of time and efforts . As far as medicine will always be an art that depends on personalization and the human touch, advancements in technology will enable medical practitioners to take their practice to the next level of safety and effectiveness.
For individuals, one of the most important things one could do is to support medical practitioners with our health status by presenting a detailed health information about oneself to them for efficient examination and execution of medical processes in subsequent times.
Most times, all the information needed about a patient is not readily available in a hospital due to some problems, especially when such patient is taken to another hospital. However, with the use of Medibloc, such information is readily available at the tip of one's finger. It helps to maintain one's privacy in accordance with HIPAA, security, brings about interoperability and some other benefits as explained in the main section.
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