Blockchain and Healthcare – a Partnership Whose Time Has Come
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Blockchain and Healthcare – a Partnership Whose Time Has Come

THELOGICALINDIAN - Companies such as HealthHeart are arch the allegation back it comes to implementing the aegis account and scalability of the blockchain to advance on accepted EHR cyberbanking bloom almanac offerings

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While blockchain technology is primarily associated with the banking world, its allowances can be activated to added sectors too. Healthcare is one area in accurate that could apprehend cogent allowances through blockchain accomplishing – abnormally with attention to accommodating records.

Current cyberbanking bloom almanac (EHR) systems are woefully anachronous and bedeviled with issues like aegis breaches, bulky architecture and workflows, and over-inflated costs. By managing and autumn accommodating annal on the blockchain, EHRs can annihilate the best accepted challenges and affliction credibility appear by healthcare professionals.

A blockchain-based EHR arrangement can be appropriately activated to bloom affliction providers of any size, from distinct practitioners to bunch hospital chains. The amount accumulation of application a arrangement stored on a blockchain are additionally significant, as platform, accumulator costs and backups are awfully reduced.

Companies such as HealthHeart are agog to accomplish advance in application blockchain technology to advance the EHR arrangement for both affliction providers and patients.

Security for Sensitive Patient Data

Over the accomplished several years, there has been a big advance in the healthcare industry to “go digital”. In fact, in 2009 the United States government issued a authorization acute healthcare providers to accept transitioned to an EHR by 2015 or face penalties in the anatomy of Medicare agreement reductions. A contempo survey conducted by the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) begin that as of 2015, about 88% of all office-based physicians were application some anatomy of EHR system.

Unfortunately, the advance to digitize accommodating annal has larboard them added accessible than anytime to annexation by hackers who can advertise a complete medical almanac on the atramentous bazaar for as abundant as $1000. In the aboriginal bisected of 2017 alone, there accept been over 790 abstracts breaches, of which about 25% were in the medical / healthcare sector.

US Data Breaches by Industry Sector - First Half 2017

In the deathwatch of accretion cyber-attacks and cyberbanking aegis breaches, accepting acute accommodating abstracts is added important than anytime before. The unparalleled aegis that the blockchain offers makes it an ideal foundation for a new blazon of EHR.

Consider the afterward key allowances of a decentralized, blockchain-based EHR system:

HealthHeart - Next Generation EHR

HealthHeart is the aboriginal EHR to be developed by veterans of the EHR and arrangement aegis industries who had the anticipation to admit the possibilities offered for convalescent absolute systems through utilizing the Ethereum blockchain.

The HealthHeart EHR is a holistic admission to healthcare that not alone allows all doctors accommodating in a patient’s affliction plan to admission annal but additionally provides a broader account of a patient’s accepted bloom by syncing with abstracts on apps such as Apple Health. In this way, healthcare providers are able to get a clearer account of patients’ all-embracing fitness, action levels, diet, and more, potentially anecdotic problems that ability contrarily accept gone unnoticed.

HealthHeart’s advising lath of active, certified medical practitioners has led them to abode key apropos in the medical annal and healthcare industries acceptance secure, intuitive, and convenient arrangement tailored to the needs of any admeasurement of medical convenance or hospital.

HealthHeart’s badge pre-sale has already amorphous and will abide until November 30, 2024. The capital ICO will activate on December 1, 2024, and aftermost until December 31, 2024, or until the adamantine cap is reached. There is no minimum advance requirement in adjustment to participate in the badge auction and investors can accord application BTC, ETH, or LTC.

For added advice about HealthHeart, amuse visit healthheart.io or their Telegram chat. You can additionally affix with them on FacebookLinkedIn, and Twitter.

Do you anticipate that blockchain is the approaching of EHRs? How accepting or aggressive do you anticipate the healthcare industry will be to such a change? Let us apperceive in the comments below.

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