I have been fascinated by bitcoin and blockchain, and kept searching the tech and non-tech aspects about them.
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These paragraphs also appeared in the book by Melanie Swan: Blockchain : Blueprint for a New Economy (oreilly)
I'm wondering how exactly would saving data in blockchain help solving those problems.
(1) By storing data in blockchain, that data will become notaried, immutable.
But how would that achieve the goal of "can be analyzed but remain private".
Especially that in reality, we can only afford to save hash of data (maybe with a adapter layer like factom.), not original data, in blockchain.
I think this mean you can put the information in the blockchain,
but you don't add personal-data (name, social insurance ID,etc.). Only necessary information (i.e. from above: health data, clinical-report, age of the patient, etc.) is then stored in blockchain and can be analyzed by doctors and medi-research.
(2) Giving up private key to third party to make sure privacy and access control
By doing that, we are actually giving up everything to the third party.
How is that ever gonna work?
relating to above example i think when you store such data in encrypted format(with personal data), so you then can give the priv-key of encryption to the doctors and the doctors can then decrypt it to use the information. In this example you have data stored coded. so nobody can read it in the chain. But only the person with the privkey can read it.. so you only are "giving up" the data to who you want to be able to read it...
Or maybe the blog is not referring bitcoin blockchain, but some alt coin's (like the healthcoin author mentioned) alt blockchain that's not yet designed and implemented.
If it is actually doable with bitcoin blockchain, please help and share some thoughts.
Thanks!
I think this comes in the future. But maybe in medi-research and alternative opensource communities with relation to medical projects.
Problem is when it comes to pharmaindustry its VERY PROFITORIENTED.... not always oriented in optimization of a process.
I think adapting a blockchain and make its parameters for this purpose can give other options. In example: The patient or owner of medical data or other private data to stored in the blockchain have his private-key and NEVER give it somebody else. But the doctor have a public key which is able to receive the data from a patient. So the data remain private @patient untill patient transfer it to PublicKey of doctor.
So this is maybe one option.. But i think many many other concepts can work for this.
Also i like this discussion, its interesting topic!
thank you!
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