Imagine going to a hospital, to the accident and emergency with pain on your back and legs. You wait for a few hours in the queue as the hospital is overfilled with patients. You get recommended to a specialist doctor and have to wait another few more hours until you finally see the doctor. You get then get referred for physiotherapy. Of course, you can’t do much other than withstand the pain for few more days until the physiotherapist refers back to the doctor for an MRI scan. After all this, the doctor misinterprets the scan and you become disabled. That’s what happened to Ms Atchinson, from Norwich. She has lost all feeling in her legs, has permanent nerve damage and the misdiagnosis has ruined her life.
http://www.edp24.co.uk/news/health/nhs-payout-1-5520215
“We cannot change the human condition,
but we can change the conditions under which humans work.”
– James Reason, 2000.
This is just one example of how medical errors can lead to catastrophic incidents. A simple misdiagnosis can lead to the difference between life and death. It is not only the doctor's fault but the hospital fault as well. Hospitals are very demanding and doctors are extremely pressured to deliver the best results in a short amount of time. There are several studies which have shown significant problems in medical safety. It is said that an average patient in a hospital is exposed to at least one medication error per day. In order to have preventive measures and interventions to break these medical errors, there has to be something done.
Medical data is one of the hot topics in this area. Having a good data governance with suitable frameworks in hospitals is essential to reduce failures in medical practices. Medical data is costly and complex for patients to retrieve. CNBC reported two patients were charged more than $500 for a single record request.
It is time for the medical industry to invest in technology that will provide safety and accessibility of medical data resulting in fewer injuries and deaths. Blockchain has taken the world by storm allowing transactions to be validated and made within seconds. Such ground-breaking technology Solutions can be integrated within the medical industry. Blockchain introduces secure and scalable data sharing to provide rapid treatment decisions for patients.
XYO network is aiming to do just that by independently verifying patient records as well as providing a log of interactions with staff and patient data such as treatment details and patient personal history. Using XYO tokens transactions can be made in a trustless decentralised ecosystem. The digitisation of medical data delivery with decrease healthcare costs and revolutionise the industry by moving towards a more personalised and secure treatment era. Today's Healthcare systems, patients labouriously obtain medical data with other providers using physical paper copies but this can be stopped by utilising blockchain technology's XYO network.
How this works is simple and effective. A log of interactions is created when a XYO device interacts with another XYO device. Utilising blockchain technology the interaction is verified with a high degree of certainty. This prevents the potential for human error record keeping and these devices act as a bridge between reporting and archiving the medical data. A xyo device can be a monitor a bracelet or even embedded in an ID. With such an immutable audit trail created anyone with the right privileges can view the medical data and is now secure.
Xyo provides the right step towards in awaiting the medical industry with blockchain technology. This is just one of the use cases which xyo network provides. With the ICO ongoing, this is a new entrant to the cryptocurrency market and has the potential to grow not only in just price of tokens but save lives by helping the medical industry.
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