Healthureum, a blockchain-based healthcare platform startup, has announced its intention to enter the healthcare spending market, which is expected to grow between 2.4% and 7.5% worldwide, by 2020. The startup based in Estonia will make great efforts to contain and preferably reduce these expenses. Healthureum aims to reduce inefficiencies in operations, resources, data, drug supply and technology.
A measure whose encouragement is beginning to become popular around the world, particularly in Japan, where the METI program rewards companies that engage in preventive health care and productivity. For this issue, Healthureum's blockchain solution offers a solution. Technology-driven health will benefit all stakeholders and patients with better access to knowledge and services, while reducing costs and saving resources, infrastructure and operational requirements in the process.
Forbes and the company's CTO, Malcolm Wilkinson, have confirmed that:
"By 2015, a record 112 million health care record data breaches occurred due to hackers. Now imagine how the use of a distributed and interdependent blockchain could mitigate this risk because of its cryptographic nature, bringing a new level of integrity to health data management".
Deloitte has identified telehealth, virtual reality and immunotherapy among the top 10 health innovations to "achieve more using less", with only a great deal of effort in the form of technical skill to integrate and share data between systems effectively.
Mission
Healthureum's blockchain-based solution is a dynamic, multifunctional ecosystem designed to deliver innovative healthcare services, transforming the way we manage our healthcare. Healthureum gives users access to doctors, specialists, quality medical infrastructure and the opportunity to access innovative treatments, including philanthropic sponsorship programs.
Healthureum's LPC, Danuta Kowalska, stated that:
"Through the use of the blockchain, we can achieve decentralized health care, closing the gap between services, through transparency, security and, more importantly, accountability".
Blockchain and intelligent contract technology integration will bring S3, standardization, scalability and social responsibility.
This will allow owners of tokens access to a world-class infrastructure such as data transparency (patients will have a full consolidation of their data accessible at any time) along with historical medical data in real time in an instant . Access will allow the secure sharing of patient medical data between patients and health stakeholders, with the establishment of permission layers. Patients will be able to receive video consultations for a faster diagnosis of a certified consultant with a fast and secure payment system. This leaves us with a very reliable ecosystem that promotes the integrity and privacy of patient data.
The Healthureum platform is designed in the Ethereum blockchain, based on intelligent contract technology to significantly improve the efficiency and interoperability of healthcare services. The Healthureum token (HTH), which is at the heart of the project, will be used as the network's medium of exchange. HTH will not only act as a payment option on the Healthureum network, it will compensate doctors who provide referrals and second opinions. Patients may also be rewarded for sharing their medical data for research programs within Healthureum's clinics and laboratories while covering up their personal identity.
Healthureum is honored to receive Mr. Malcolm Wilkinson, data scientist and CTO of Healthureum. His extensive knowledge of important data, and more recently of data science and python, will be valuable in the implementation of the data systematization framework, which is at the heart of the Healthureum initiative.