Advisory Team
How Do We Keep Personal Data Secure?

Why Blockchain?Distributed ledger technology is particularly relevant for patient-centric designs. Its critical that medical records be persistent, accessible, and immutable. All nodes sharing data must reach consensus about which events occurred first and ensure there are no missing or duplicate records. These are properties that distributed ledgers are particularly good at and which provide dramatic improvements to almost all healthcare systems currently in place.
Permanent AccessibilityDecentralized storage ensures that your medical records continue to be accessible and remove reliance on any particular entity (e.g., a large hospital) to either continue hosting that data or continue making that data accessible to you. This is critical in healthcare, where even short delays can be the difference between life and death.
Shared Access
Everyone you share access with is able to read and write to the same database. This ensures your healthcare providers are able to appropriately coordinate your care, and eliminates the need to repeat the same tests and conversations whenever you see a new provider.
Immutable Referent
Hash referents to the encrypted copies of your data can be stored across a wide number of computers, making it nearly impossible to change any aspect of your data because it would require changing the majority of those copies simultaneously. This means that the entities you share data with can be confident in its accuracy, providing a new level of trust.