The Taipei Medical University Hospital has rolled out a blockchain-powered platform to enhance medical record-keeping, Taipei Times reported August 31.
The so called “Healthcare Blockchain Platform” was reportedly developed so as to support the government’s hierarchical Medical System policy, improve patient referral services, and integrate individual healthcare networks to enable individuals to access their medical records in a better way. To make a request for their records, patients can log in to a password-protected mobile app.
The project involved over 100 clinics, that deploy blockchain technology to deal with major issues in healthcare, such as information transfer between medical establishments and patient portals. Through the platform, patients can access “a complete set of all their medical records, including high-resolution medical pictures, laboratory results, and clinical and health exam information,” while hospitals and clinics can request, authorize and share patients’ records using sensible contracts.
Hospital superintendent Chen Ray-jade told Tapei Times that blockchain can facilitate to reduce the danger of security breaches, adding that “blockchain technology not only helps to combine electronic medical records with electronic health records from multiple hospitals and clinics, it also incorporates the extra security feature of notification and consent before any transfer takes place.”
Healthcare establishments globally have also applied distributed ledger technology in medical data management. Earlier this month, Cointelegraph reported that South Korean biotech enterprise Macrogen together with local tech firm Bigster is developing a medical huge data ecosystem that would allow for secure and private storage and transfer of huge amounts of sensitive genomic and personal info.
In May, U.S.-based life science research marketplace Scientist.com revealed a new blockchain platform designed to trace and shield pharmaceutical data. Additionally, Scientist.com is attempting to scale back the burden on biopharma businesses to comply with strict U.S. data regulations.
In April, German Camelot Consulting group developed a blockchain-based solution for the management of sensitive medical data, where all data transactions are encrypted and keep on an unchangeable blockchain and are carried out directly between the authorized participants.
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