Empowering Patients with Access to Health Records through Distributed Applications

HIMSS April 22, 2020
Danyal Akarca, MD, Research Fellow, Medicalchain; a HIMSS Blockchain in Healthcare Task Force Member

Digital health technologies, encompassing telemedicine, genomics, artificial intelligence and beyond, have been receiving growing attention by governmental and health institutions all around the world. This follows an awareness of the capabilities of these technologies to help us provide personal care at scale and, ultimately, tackle critical population health needs.

Without a doubt, there is an exciting future ahead at the intersection of these data-driven technologies, healthcare and policy. Yet, it all comes down to one thing. Data.

Shortcomings of Our Digital Health Infrastructures

And we have some significant data-related problems. Across the world, patients’ health record data are entirely fragmented across geographical space; they are inaccessible; they are kept within differing proprietary structures, depending on the local system, and ownership...

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