HIT Infrastructure October 1, 2019
Fred Donovan

Consumers are willing to use blockchain-based tokens for a variety of applications, including using them to control access to their electronic health records (EHR), according to a survey of 1,000 U.S. consumers by KPMG.

In addition, blockchain-based tokenization can be used to track, correlate, and coordinate the identity of healthcare providers who have treated a patient, KPMG explained in its report Blockchain-enabled Digital Tokenization Is Poised to Transform Commerce.

An attractive feature of blockchain-based tokenization is the security and data privacy it provides. “Tokenization enables organizations to leverage blockchain infrastructure and value attributes to build robust security models that are embedding privacy requirements into technology solutions by design,” the report observed.

Around 63 percent of respondents said they are interested...

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