HIT Infrastructure April 23, 2018
Alternate Health and Luxoft with Appian explore healthcare blockchain for EHRs and business process management to further develop the technology.
As healthcare blockchain continues to grow, more vendors are releasing tools featuring the technology. Most recently, Alternate Healthcare and Appian with Luxoft have released blockchain tools for the healthcare industry.
Alternate Health announced the release of its blockchain EHR system based on Ethereum blockchain. Other recent healthcare blockchain tools have been built on Ethereum including DNAtix, which is using the technology to transfer large genomic data sets.
The EHR is HIPAA and PIPEDA-compliant and uses blockchain to keep patient information on a distributed ledger. Each patient has a private cryptographic key that is used to identify the patient and decrypt...