The exchange of health related information of patients is complex and it requires guarantee of high security standards therefore we initiate a technology that guarantees these requirements.
One of the least standardized process in health sector is the gathering, cleaning and organization of a patients’ health status information. Frequently patient’s health data are used incorrectly or simply exposed to the general community, which has led to a reluctance from population to share information.
Technological advances allow a safe information exchange of patient’s information.
Having a universal record of the user, where you can find in one location current health status and other data such as allergies, medical conditions, symptoms can help a physician around the world heal such patient in a more efficient, objective and with better results, and less duplicated diagnostic studies.
This could provide extraordinary benefits, ending data fragmentation, and tools can be implemented to treat any situation individually.
Thus, different institutions have taken the task of proposing initiatives that promote the efficient exchange and that comply with strict privacy parameters.
The National Cancer Institute in the United States is one of the organizations that proposes a system based in blockchain (or chain of blocks) with the purpose to improve protection of patient’s privacy, maintain the flexibility among them and the Institutions, and enforce sovereignty of each user data.
The most important thing is to speed up the work flow with diagnosis imaging, since it is easier to navigate through details that would not identifiable at plain sight gives openness to manage and evaluate the results with Artificial Intelligence help and the Machine Learning (a branch of AI).
With the support of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institutethe program will be able to administer in a precise manner all the information stored. A chain block basically creates a link between elements in such way that they are not at the mercy of a single location, thus the confidentiality of the information stored.
Latin America will join the discussions that arise from this initiative, and will most likely hace an impact in security and protection of personal data around the health world. The debate is increasing and this kind of technological advances will infiltrate the management of different institution in order to gain users confidence.
