Blockchain can solve data privacy concerns in healthcare

Times of India January 28, 2022
Pradeep Goel

The pandemic has led to a widespread adoption of telemedicine in mainstream healthcare. It has enabled patients and doctors to stay connected and address many lower risk illnesses and diseases during the lockdown period when movements were restricted. It has also helped in ensuring that the health and wellbeing of healthcare practitioners and patients alike were protected.

However, along with the increasing use of telemedicine, concerns also arose about issues of data privacy. The lack of importance given to data security is evident from the 2021 Thales Global Cloud Security Study based on a survey of over 2,600 executives from 16 countries. The study revealed that while 40% of organisations experienced a cloud-based data breach in the past year, only...

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