Becker's Healthcare February 8, 2022
Naomi Diaz

Non-fungible tokens could be used to transform the way patients gain access to their personal health records, Fast Company reported Feb. 4.

The report cited a Feb. 3 journal of Science publication out of Baylor College of Medicine, where a team of bioethics, law and informatics scholars wrote about the potential NFTs can have on the healthcare record-keeping system.

According to the authors, patients can be disenfranchised when it comes to their personal health records as it can be distributed or commercialized once it leaves their hands, but NFTs can give patients ownership of their records through its blockchain ledger. The blockchain ledger, a digital ledger of transactions, could allow patients to track the sale of their data, giving them...

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Topics: Blockchain, EMR / EHR, Health IT, Patient / Consumer, Provider, Technology
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