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What is the biggest potential for blockchain implementation in the healthcare sector?
"What we are seeing in terms of real applications – outside the entire stake of types of cryptocurrency offers – are auditing and portability capabilities that make it easier for patients to log in and retain the latest records. without taking a cabinet file with you, "says attorney Steven Teppler of Mandelbaum Salsburg law firm.
And for organizations that manage and manage medical records, blockchain, a distributed registry technology, offers "a simpler way to facilitate both the generation, transmission and security of records," says Teppler in an interview with Information Security Media Group.
pros and cons
But as with most technologies, he observes the pros and cons of security for the use of blockchain in the health sector.
"Blockchain security professionals are that once a block is created, it can not be altered flawlessly," he says. "This means that any information associated with it, that is an event or time, and the associated content … is not editable and is reliable until the encryption, the encryption level, the algorithm remain valid ".
Regarding the negative aspects, "those are simple enough but difficult to understand to the extent that this anchors confidence at the beginning of the blockchain: the initiator of the blockchain must have a degree of trust embedded in the system from the beginning and if you do not have that one of trust yet … it puts into play the accuracy, the validity or the reliability of the whole blockchain, the blocks that follow ", He says.
In the interview (see audio link below the photo), Teppler also discusses:
- Data interoperability problems involving the blockchain;
- Compliance considerations for blockchain;
- Security consulting for entities in the healthcare sector that intend to pilot blockchain implementations.
Teppler leads electronic discovery and technology-based legal practices at Mandelbaum Salsburg P.C. He is the co-chair of the IoT committee of the American Bar Association; a member of the Seventh Circumscription Discovery Court of Appeals electronic pilot program; founder and co-president of the IoT National Institute of the American Bar Association and of the National Institute for the Electronic Discovery and Information Governance of the American Bar Association; and a contributing author of ANSI X9F4 standards for reliable timestamp standards for the financial sector.
