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– The Massachusetts General Hospital Imaging and Calculation Laboratory is working on a health blockchain project with the Korean startup MediBloc for the storage and exchange of patient data, Coindesk reported.
The director of the Synho Do laboratory told the website that his lab is working with MediBloc "to explore the potentials of blockchain technology to provide secure solutions for health information exchange, integrating health AI applications into the daily clinical workflow and support [a] platform for sharing and labeling data for the development of machine learning models. "
MediBloc CEO Allen Wookyun Kho added: "Every day, when people go to hospitals, a lot of information is created, but it is difficult to transfer them from one hospital to another." Blockchain technology can help overcome this difficulty.
A recent study by CB Insights predicted that blockchain could solve some of the most challenging health care issues, including the storage and exchange of patient data.
The report examined cases of short, medium and long-term use for health blockchain.
In the short term, the health blockchain could help with back-office operations, improve the ability of organizations to track products in the supply chain and strengthen information storage and verification.
The Synaptic Health Alliance, consisting of Humana, MultiPlan, Optum, Quest Diagnostics, UnitedHealthcare and now Aetna and Ascension, plans to use blockchain to keep provider directories up-to-date.
Synaptic explained that maintaining the directory of suppliers of updated health care plans is a problematic issue for healthcare organizations.
Federal and state laws require health plans to maintain directories containing information about doctors and other health professionals. Industry estimates suggest that $ 2.1 billion is spent annually through the health system by acquiring and maintaining supplier data.
The Synaptic pilot project is exploring how blockchain technology can be used to share data in order to demonstrate savings on administrative costs for health plans and healthcare professionals, improving the quality of health care providers' demographics and data. consumer health experience.
In addition, Hashed Health has launched several health blockchain initiatives, including one involving GHX, Accenture, Martin Ventures and Change Healthcare. This initiative uses blockchain protocols to check if a healthcare provider is authorized for his services and position.
In the medium term, CBI Insights expects that the health blockchain will be used to improve claims management, payment and prior authorization; exchange of health information and research data; and research and test design.
In the long term, the health blockchain could be used to manage universal identities, patient records and application services.
In a recent Forbes The article, Bill Frist, a heart and lung transplant surgeon and former leader of the Senate majority, predicted that the health blockchain would transform patient care.
"Blockchain is permanently and rapidly moving towards production in real healthcare settings, but it is expected to be a $ 2 trillion-dollar industry … Technology will change care as we know it: moving the locus of care in the community, in the home-setting, meeting the patient where I am, "he wrote.
Frist was also keynote speaker at the recent Distributed: Health conference held in Nashville, where he said health care is "ripe for breaks like no other industry." The reason is that we have a lot, a lot of money. very high, which the typical consumer can not afford and we have irregular access ".
"When it comes at a high cost and you have irregular access, the macro environment for interruption is huge and that's where Blockchain is," he said.
"Without access to real, reliable, privacy-protected, distributed data … we can not make real progress," Frist added. "Blockchain has the opportunity … to address one of the basic needs of society, which is to make sure our children have a better life, have better health than we have".
