Protecting Health Data Integrity
Blockchain is a technology used popularly today in the finance and banking industries. To exchange data securely across healthcare systems and applications, blockchain is being explored as a tool to decentralize data storage and control.
WHAT DOES IT TRY TO SOLVE?
Blockchain in healthcare does not attempt to be a catch-all solution for ensuring health data integrity. It demonstrates the importance of personal health records system to strengthen the security, privacy, and mobility of health data through patient-centered data sharing.
HOW DOES IT SOLVE THE PROBLEM?
Blockchain decentralizes the storage of health records, where interactions are transparent and accessible to declared participants. Trail of interactions are immutable and are reliant on established cryptographic techniques.
