Blockchain Technology Improves Data Authentication and Transparency in Healthcare

The healthcare industry is driven by data. As artificial intelligence, machine learning, and wearables begin to work their way into the healthcare ecosystem, it becomes imperative that the data being used is trustworthy. If the underlying data of medical reports being generated through machine learning and/or AI cannot be verified and shown to be authentic, the resulting insights could be considered unreliable or even worthless. This is something that many do not understand and will become more and more of a problem in the coming years.

The answer to this problem lies at the intersection of blockchain technology and data science. Jim Nasr, CEO of Acoer, for example, is exploring different ways to bring data authentication through...