NFTs could revolutionize healthcare, bioethicists say
Fast Company February 4, 2022
A multidisciplinary team of scholars write that NFTs could help citizens track and control who accesses their personal health records.
Hype for NFTs is bubbling over in Hollywood, but skeptics of the digital art form might be wondering what it can offer beyond jpegs of animated monkeys in sunglasses and striped shirts, trafficked for bragging rights and internet cred (and maybe a few thousand dollars here or there). It’s a plaything for the rich, they might scoff.
But NFTs could be more than that. They could actually create social good, argues a recent publication out of Baylor College of Medicine—specifically, within the healthcare industry.
In the journal Science, a multidisciplinary team of bioethics, law, and informatics scholars write that NFTs,...