AI in Healthcare February 4, 2020
Blockchain technology can play a key role in the management of medical records, according to a new commentary published in npj Digital Medicine. This can help health systems increase security and cut costs at the same time—and it ultimately leads to better patient outcomes.
“In order to ensure that healthcare systems do not remain an accessible target for hackers, sufficient precautions must be put in place to protect patients’ sensitive data,” wrote lead author Anuraag A. Vazirani, University of Oxford in the UK, and colleagues. “Blockchain uses public-key cryptography to secure data: a public and a private key are generated for each user using a one-way encryption function (hash). These may be used by both parties in a transaction: the...
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