Wall Street Journal April 27, 2017
Our medical histories are vital to us as patients, to the physicians who treat us, and to the insurance companies that cover us. This data needs to be managed under a mandate of control, privacy and accountability. The framework we’ve built around this undertaking here in the U.S. is the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. HIPAA sets standards for the protection of health information. However, from a security perspective it is arduous and cumbersome.
Accessing medical data is clunky, requires a high overhead, and is prone to human error. That’s because information is typically not located in a single database but rather distributed among many actors who own and exchange the data for each patient as required. The data...
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