Forbes April 28, 2020
With all the headlines these days being occupied by news of COVID-19, it is possible you may have missed an important ray of light shining out of Estonia this past week. Whilst blockchain in healthcare may not be on your regular notification list, this new development is certainly likely to have wide-reaching implications and hence qualifies for a mention on this blog.
The fact that Guardtime Health has launched its HSX API platform for building secure distributed health applications is not an insignificant event. Backed up by the world’s first EU-eIDAS compliant blockchain-based trust service, the HSX APIs generate auditable and immutable evidence of data integrity, provenance and GDPR-compliant patient consent.
In a global battle to solve the COVID-19 crisis,...