Taiwanese Hospital Launches Blockchain Platform for Record Keeping

[audaciousbeing]

This is really a great news that should be publicised as it has gone beyond all of the theories and approaches that we have seen to the point of practicability of it use to the benefit of the existing system and people. The issue of medical records have been an issue that becomes an herculean tasks especially in the case of emergency where the patient cannot be called upon give account of his/her medical history of the list of things he is allergic to, the operations he has underwent in the past all other details that would have been missed in the bureaucracy of data movement from one hospital to the other.

Another worthy commendation is the approval needed by the client before such can be done and I think this would guide against the abuse that could happen as a result of that and I think the approval should also be extended to include next of kin when the patient is incapacitated to act on his own.

[BitcoinOddsChecker]

It's great that Bitcoin continues to cross borders. From trading, logistics, security, and now this! We can only expect the best from Bitcoin with news like this. This can be the stepping stone for healthcare to slowly incorporate the blockchain technology. This will surely save them the time and hassle associated with older practices.

[talkbitcoin]

unlike most people here i would like to  see this in real action first before saying whether this is really as great as they are saying it is or not. so far we have only heard the news and not what comes after. for example where is this hospital that is using this exactly, is the blockchain being used within the hospital itself or is it in the Taiwanese health system country wide?
and most important question of all is, did it really improve things or complicate them?

[AAKODI]

Taiwanese Hospital Launches Blockchain Platform for Record Keeping
As part of efforts to consolidate the government’s Hierarchical Medical system policy, Taipei Medical University Hospital has introduced a blockchain-driven platform for the advancement of medical record-keeping.

The Healthcare Blockchain Platform will be used to improve patient referral services and integrates individual healthcare networks for people to access their medical records with relative ease, according to a report on Taipei Times.

In a statement released by the hospital, the platform will be a one-stop referral and long-term care service in support of the government Hierarchical Medical System policy.

The Project incorporated the collaboration of over 100 community-based clinics and employed the use of blockchain technology in addressing “common pain points” in healthcare. These include the transfer of data between medical institutions, personal patient portals and physician referral process, the hospital wrote.

“Using smart contracts, hospitals and clinics can request and authorize patient record sharing easily and securely,” the report noted.

Hospital superintendent Chen Ray-jade, who spoke to the news outlet, said the technology would provide an avenue to synchronize electronic medical records with electronic health records from various clinics and hospitals. It would also come with a security feature of notification and consent before any transfer occurs.

Taipei has only followed the path of other healthcare establishments in the world using ledger technology in the management of medical data.

Earlier in August, a medical big data ecosystem meant for the storage and secured transfer of sensitive genomic and personal information was jointly developed by South Korean biotech enterprise Macron and local tech firm, Bigster. The move is expected to reshape the global medical landscape by allowing for secure storage and transfer of large amounts of sensitive genomic and personal information through the blockchain.
https://www.ccn.com/taiwanese-hospital-launches-blockchain-platform-for-record-keeping/

One of the best idea and a bold concept we saw recently in many ICO projects targeting health care sector through blockchain based decentralized platforms to manage, transfer and analyze patients data and provide facilities to help improve there treatments in a futuristic way and there is a god demand for that from the health industry and that is why this hospital made such decision