Healthcare industry use digital methods for maintaining electronic health records. From patient’s personal information to different diagnostic reports, and doctor’s prescriptions, healthcare organizations, currently use centralized servers for saving various types of data. The server’s owned by private companies or health information exchanges.
10. Entire healthcare
blockchain solution
could be divided into
5 MAJOR STAGES
Capturing of healthcare data
Cleaning and Enrichment of data
Storing data on the blockchain
Consumption of data
Data mining with AI and ML
11. To integrate blockchain into healthcare, first, we need to
understand the scope of data and where and how it is being
generated
12. Three fundamental things to be done to clean and secure the
data before storing on to the blockchain
14. Replace the
patient’s identity
with the public
hash key
Using “Hash” instead of
an individual’s name
would make it
impossible for the
attacker to decode the
data
Make it
compliance ready
Patient’s information or
medical data should
adhere to healthcare
compliance
Add meta
information and
structure it for
computation
The medical data is
categorized in different
formats. Applying
computation to clean
the data is essential to
store it in a well-
structured way
15. Blockchain enables the digital health records to be distributed
across nodes within the network
16. Everyone who wants to access the
patient’s data would require a
PRIVATE KEY to uncover the medical
data
18. Stakeholders involved in the treatment of a patient can
consume the stored data using patient’s private key
19. When the data is saved on the blockchain, Smart contracts are
triggered
Healthcare provider receives the patient’s report with a hash that
does not reveal the identity
The smart contract events will also notify the patient or the
emergency contact to authorize to see the information