How Healthureum's Data systemization is set to change healthcare

To enable better patient data handling, Healthureum hopes to implement a Blockchain based data systemization system with the aim of making data sharing between patients, doctors, clinics, laboratories and other health-related departments easy and manageable. Through a Blockchain approach, Healthureum will achieve a secure, standardized EHR ecosystem that will guarantee higher patient satisfaction and better medical infrastructure management.

Patients will enjoy better security, privacy and data integrity while hospital management will have their work cut out for them on the network. Healthureum's Blockchain network will allow anyone to store medical data on a single encrypted platform with a level of secure cryptographic sophistication that is reliable. As a result, stakeholders will have a tamper-proof data storage and sharing system, therefore, enabling regulatory bodies to set up consistent patient data sharing rules. Plus, hospital management and government bodies will be able to analyze better and collect population health data thanks to smart contracts that will keep the entire system autonomous and free from human error.

Let's look deeper at how this will work.

Types of data to be consolidated

With Healthureum, patients will be able to become part of an improved population health management system thanks to Blockchain's trustless design that enables information safety and privacy. Healthureum looks to improving efficiency with the consolidation of the following types of data

Scans

Test Results

Medical records

Billing

Treatment plans

Prescriptions

Referrals

Claims and X-rays

By doing this Healthureum will ensure that all data is stored in chronological order in the Blockchain thus making it tamper proof and easy to manage.  Patients will be accountable for the storage of their data with the development of APIs that store patient data on the Blockchain. 

To ensure privacy, each patient's data will have a public key, and private key on the Blockchain is, therefore, ensuring that only authorized individuals have access to a patient's data. After a visit to the hospital, a patient will be able to lend the public keys to the doctor to get an update and receive treatment. To protect the data from hackers and cybercriminals, the Blockchain's cryptographic nature will prevent illegal data sharing and hacking. 

Basically, a patient will get to enjoy private access to his or her medical data at the touch of a button while the Doctors and hospital staff will also have it easy since they will be able to access and update a patient's data with ease.

Challenges of consolidating large data on Blockchain

With such large file sizes such as X-rays, Scans and Medical records that are to be stored on the network there is no denying that Healthureum's Blockchain network will be affected. So how does Healthureum plan to solve this issue while still maintaining the efficiency of the network? Well, Healthureum hopes to achieve more efficiency with a system that stores data on and off the Blockchain.

With standardized data sets, Healthureum will manage a realistic framework that will essentially act as a transactional layer for data sharing. For large data sizes that cannot be stored on the Blockchain, an encrypted link will be established to point to a separate location that stores the data. This will ensure that medical data records and MRI images that are not suitable for the chain are still easy to share and store without hampering overall performance.

Security and privacy

Evidently, the biggest challenge that most medical institutions have to deal with is the sensitive nature of medical data. The good news is that Healthureum has a solution that will deal with identifiable and non-identifiable data. Patients will be able to give permissioned access to an authorized doctor who will have full access to a patient's data for a full longitudinal view of a patient's health. Here, the patient will have to give out the secret identifiable private keys to the doctor. But when it comes to research related data, patients will volunteer medical data using public keys that are non-identifiable therefore protecting the privacy of the patient. Thanks to the highly encrypted Blockchain network, permission layers will be created to maintain privacy and security.

Conclusion

For a more pleasant patient experience, Healthureum hopes to take up a proactive data protection approach that is set to comply with the proposed General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) for all EU patients in 2018. Healthureum's data systemization will not only work to make patient data private and secure, but there will also be improved service delivery especially in emergency cases where responders will have a view of mission-critical data to save time and lives. With the hope of integrating its data systemization into nursing homes, hospitals and clinics across the globe, Healthureum will achieve better patient record handling, standardization, interoperability and data integrity in the healthcare industry. More information visit https://www.healthureum.io/