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Re: [ANN] 🔐⚕️Coral Health: Reclaim Your Healthcare Data⚕️🔓[CHT][WHITELIST]
Hi everyone, we're pleased to welcome Blockchain Titan Don Tapscott to our Advisory Team. You can read the press release here:
https://medium.com/@mycoralhealth/coral-health-welcomes-blockchain-titan-don-tapscott-to-advisory-team-f5b13e6362d9
https://medium.com/@mycoralhealth/coral-health-welcomes-blockchain-titan-don-tapscott-to-advisory-team-f5b13e6362d9
[ANN] 🔐⚕️Coral Health: Reclaim Your Healthcare Data⚕️🔓[CHT][WHITELIST]
The Problem With Healthcare
Rich medical information exists today, but it is all too often fragmented or inaccessible due to antiquated data sharing methods and improper alignment of incentives across the industry. These information gaps are causing almost a trillion dollars in wasteful spending each year, and are preventing doctors from providing the personalized care patients deserve.
The Coral Health Vision
Coral Health is building a more connected future in healthcare by enabling secure, real-time, shared access to validated medical information, with an emphasis on patient-centered care. Our blockchain-powered solutions accelerate care delivery, automate multiparty administrative processes, and improve health outcomes. Learn more in our white paper.
Not Your Typical Company, Not Your Typical ICO
Coral Health is uniquely positioned to disrupt the healthcare industry.
Industry Expertise
Our team of healthcare entrepreneurs, proven technologists, health policy experts and leading scientists have created an innovative, industry-validated strategy that leverages the digital transformation occurring in healthcare to create a new, patient-centric ecosystem. By giving patients control over their health records and incentivizing them to securely share information, we will unlock a new era of data sharing in healthcare that will improve care and drive down costs. Our advisory team includes industry titans like Don Tapscott and Sally Eaves, who are both at the forefront of applying blockchain technology to solve stubborn problems.
Prominent Partnerships
We've forged key partnerships with research institutions and healthcare systems across North America and are in late-stage discussions with leading insurance companies to use our patient-permissioned data to develop targeted solutions with immediate operational benefits.
Technical Acumen
Coral Health has brought together cutting edge technologies, such as SMART on FHIR, blockchain and IPFS to create a unified system for storing and sharing healthcare data.
Our Passion
Our Passion
To sum it up - this is not just a bold vision, its a stepwise plan for how to fix healthcare. We're well aware that achieving our mission won't happen overnight, so we're playing the long game. This is why the sale of our precleared utility token - which has been reviewed by Canadian securities regulators - that fuels our ecosystem and provides the necessary incentives for data exchange, will be ongoing.
CHTs will be sold on an ongoing basis on Coral Healths platform and will be used to power the various use cases in the ecosystem. Pricing of CHTs is subject to change as user adoption grows. Coral Healths revenue model includes a small transaction fee each time one of our use cases is invoked.
CHTs will be sold on an ongoing basis on Coral Healths platform and will be used to power the various use cases in the ecosystem. Pricing of CHTs is subject to change as user adoption grows. Coral Healths revenue model includes a small transaction fee each time one of our use cases is invoked.
Who Benefits?
The Coral Health Token
The Coral Health Records App
Product Demo
Our app is the easiest way to access and control your health records on Apple or Android.
Because we use new industry standards, our app is already compatible with over 500 healthcare organizations from across the US, encompassing all of the major EHR vendors, including Epic, Cerner and athenahealth.
Our app is the easiest way to access and control your health records on Apple or Android.
Because we use new industry standards, our app is already compatible with over 500 healthcare organizations from across the US, encompassing all of the major EHR vendors, including Epic, Cerner and athenahealth.
Seamless Setup
Using SMART on FHIR standards, our app creates a secure connection between your mobile device and each location that your medical records are stored. Just use your existing account login details.
Persistent Connection
Persistent Connection
Login once. Our app will then alert you when you have new medical information like lab results or prescriptions to view.
Total Control
Total Control
All of your information is stored encrypted on your smartphone in a HIPAA-compliant manner. Only you hold the key to access or share your medical records.
Executive Team
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.
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 Accessibility
Decentralized 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
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
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.
Roadmap
Token Details
We're already seeing high level players from a number of different industries exploring how they can apply the blockchain to their businesses. Just this past week at HIMSS, the largest healthcare IT conference in the world, blockchain had replaced cloud-based EHRs and machine learning as the biggest topic of the conference. I predict a bit of a quiet spell while companies develop out the products they've pitched but it's just a matter of time before those applications start gaining widespread industry adoption.
The security is fantastic but it does put the onus on you to protect your private keys and take necessary precautions like moving assets to cold storage as soon as you can. While bitcoin itself is very secure cyber thieves have become more sophisticated in their scams and unlike with a traditional bank you'll have far fewer options for getting those funds back.
Re: Walmart Wants to Use Blockchain Technology for Smarter Shipping
Walmart wants to use blockchain technology to make smarter shipping of packages for better tracking and work with other innovations like autonomous vehicles
Read more here: Blockchain Technology
Read more here: Blockchain Technology
This latest move from Walmart is really encouraging. This along with their earlier announcement about using the blockchain to better manage the grocery supply chain and improve the safety of their foods is really establishing a credible commitment to using the blockchain more widely. Hope they're willing to move from the exploration to the deployment phase quickly.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/rogeraitken/2017/12/14/ibm-walmart-launching-blockchain-food-safety-alliance-in-china-with-fortune-500s-jd-com/#3b163e837d9c
The price of privacy depends.
If you are an Average Joe with average salary nobody will ever care about you, your money, your habbits and your naked pictures.
However, if you aspire to become wealthy successful and influential person, then you are an interest for a lot of people, who want to exploit you.
And here is where the privacy issue is coming in.
How much assets do you own? How much impact you can make in the world? How many people will benefit or lose their slice of the pie because of you?
The price of privacy is going to be proportional to the forementioned factors.
If you are Edward Snowden just about to shutter the most powerful agency in the world, then privacy is priceless. Privacy is life-saving.
If you are a homeless guy, then the price of privacy is basically zero.
If you are an Average Joe with average salary nobody will ever care about you, your money, your habbits and your naked pictures.
However, if you aspire to become wealthy successful and influential person, then you are an interest for a lot of people, who want to exploit you.
And here is where the privacy issue is coming in.
How much assets do you own? How much impact you can make in the world? How many people will benefit or lose their slice of the pie because of you?
The price of privacy is going to be proportional to the forementioned factors.
If you are Edward Snowden just about to shutter the most powerful agency in the world, then privacy is priceless. Privacy is life-saving.
If you are a homeless guy, then the price of privacy is basically zero.
I think you're exactly right that the average Joe probably doesn't care or value privacy highly in most situations. I think security of information is more broadly salient than privacy of information. Even the average Joe does care a lot when it comes to security of financial and health information. No one wants their social security number out there and many people have health conditions (say they're HIV+) that they definitely do not want their friends knowing about.
From a US regulatory standpoint having an operational product before a token sale is really important. The Howey test is the main standard the SEC uses to decide whether or not a token is a security or instead a utility token. If there's no existing product use for the token then the SEC has strongly signaled that they will consider a token a security because the only thing people are buying is the expectation of future profit.
There's some good literature out there on the Howey test that's worth a read.
There's some good literature out there on the Howey test that's worth a read.
Re: [2018-03-05]Alibaba Subsidiary Reports Successful Use of Blockchain
https://www.ccn.com/alibaba-subsidiary-reports-successful-use-blockchain-technology-logistics-data/
Lynx International, a subsidiary of the Chinese e-commerce monolith Alibaba, recently announced that it has successfully integrated blockchain technology into the companys cross-border logistics business. According to the company, its blockchain-based system keeps track of all relevant information regarding an imported shipment, including details about production, transport method, customs, inspection and third party verification.
The technical leader of the company, Tang Ren, told a Chinese news outlet,
Although the concept of blockchain has only recently started to emerge, it has a very wide range of applications. We firmly believe that this is an Internet-based technology, not a tool for speculating on currencies.
As is typical for any blockchain-based system, once the data is recorded, it can be retrieved and scrutinized, but not modified under any circumstance. Blockchains immutability is one of the primary reasons it has seen overwhelming use in cryptocurrencies. Thus, by extension, any system employing the technology can enjoy the security benefits and trustless nature.
Alibabas foray into blockchain technology does not necessarily indicate that the company has any soft spot for cryptocurrencies though. Not too long ago, in December 2017, the companys founder, Jack Ma, said that while he had no personal or business interest in the asset class at the time, his company was making significant headways in blockchain technology. Lynxs announcement is likely one of the few early results of Alibabas foray into the field.
Given that Alibaba owns Taobao and AliExpress, two huge online shopping websites catering to China and the rest of the world respectively, it makes sense that the parent company is attempting to streamline its logistics process. Alongside the import business, Alibaba has also launched blockchain-based programs for the healthcare and food quality control industries.
Some media reports indicate that Taobaos mobile app has been updated with links to View product logistics traceability information at the bottom of some items. When clicked, any information available for the product will be displayed, presumably allowing the user to ensure that the object in question has been imported from a legitimate source.
So far, it is estimated that over 30,000 imported goods from ports in Shangai, Shenzhen, Guangzhuo, Hangzhuo and Tianjin among others have had their details logged on the companys blockchain system. Tang also confirmed that the information tracking process begins before the products even reach the country. He stated,
When these goods are shipped from overseas to China, the logistics data have already begun to go on the blockchain.
Lynx International, a subsidiary of the Chinese e-commerce monolith Alibaba, recently announced that it has successfully integrated blockchain technology into the companys cross-border logistics business. According to the company, its blockchain-based system keeps track of all relevant information regarding an imported shipment, including details about production, transport method, customs, inspection and third party verification.
The technical leader of the company, Tang Ren, told a Chinese news outlet,
Although the concept of blockchain has only recently started to emerge, it has a very wide range of applications. We firmly believe that this is an Internet-based technology, not a tool for speculating on currencies.
As is typical for any blockchain-based system, once the data is recorded, it can be retrieved and scrutinized, but not modified under any circumstance. Blockchains immutability is one of the primary reasons it has seen overwhelming use in cryptocurrencies. Thus, by extension, any system employing the technology can enjoy the security benefits and trustless nature.
Alibabas foray into blockchain technology does not necessarily indicate that the company has any soft spot for cryptocurrencies though. Not too long ago, in December 2017, the companys founder, Jack Ma, said that while he had no personal or business interest in the asset class at the time, his company was making significant headways in blockchain technology. Lynxs announcement is likely one of the few early results of Alibabas foray into the field.
Given that Alibaba owns Taobao and AliExpress, two huge online shopping websites catering to China and the rest of the world respectively, it makes sense that the parent company is attempting to streamline its logistics process. Alongside the import business, Alibaba has also launched blockchain-based programs for the healthcare and food quality control industries.
Some media reports indicate that Taobaos mobile app has been updated with links to View product logistics traceability information at the bottom of some items. When clicked, any information available for the product will be displayed, presumably allowing the user to ensure that the object in question has been imported from a legitimate source.
So far, it is estimated that over 30,000 imported goods from ports in Shangai, Shenzhen, Guangzhuo, Hangzhuo and Tianjin among others have had their details logged on the companys blockchain system. Tang also confirmed that the information tracking process begins before the products even reach the country. He stated,
When these goods are shipped from overseas to China, the logistics data have already begun to go on the blockchain.
Yeah Alibaba seems to really be pioneering this. Very encouraging to see from a company their size. I checked out their healthcare blockchain application as well. The details are pretty sparse at this point but it seems like the idea is around improving interoperability between different places of care like a doctors office and a hospital. Unclear if they plan to do that with a patient-focused approach to data or have some central body control the incoming data from the different institutions.
https://www.ccn.com/alibaba-partners-chinese-govt-trial-blockchain-healthcare/
I don't believe any school would put bitcoin trading on the curriculum , but l think that the block chain is a different story. The opportunity for the kids that learn about it and how to program it now, is huge. It is a new industry, that is only in it's infancy.
Yeah agree. I think teaching the about the blockchain would be really valuable. I can't see this happening in K-12 but I hope universities start putting it on their curriculum soon.
Fraud is one of the biggest areas of concern within healthcare. If we could find ways to reduce fraud, healthcare would be a lot cheaper and more people could have access to it. I like the idea of using transaction logs within the blockchain as a way to verify financial aspects of the exchange. Maybe there could exist a health record blockchain/"coin" that all parties have access to. Since the unique identifiers are anonymous there wouldn't be any risk of HIPAA violations. The same way that transactions are "confirmed" we could do something similar for confirming treatments. Keeps the patients and doctors honest about what they charge. If they only get payed based on confirmed transactions in the log then it would be a whole lot easier to spot fraud this way...
Yeah I think the payment side of healthcare will benefit before the clinical side does. Here's a well written paper on using the blockchain for claims processing. It's written by Humana one of the largest insurers in the US. https://www.healthit.gov/sites/default/files/3-47-whitepaperblockchainforclaims_v10.pdf
Re: Crypto's quiet revolution in authentication is redefining privacy
Authentication is also critical to a lot of healthcare functions as well. Let's say a person shows up unresponsive at an emergency room. How do you quickly find and pull that person's medical information in time to treat them appropriately? That's where I see the potential for a digital identity that persists across entities in the healthcare system. Couple big healthcare players like Microsoft are starting to explore that.
Re: UAE Healthcare Provider to Store Patient Records on a Blockchain
alot of people think that health records cant be decentralised because there is so much data and it just cant fit on a blockchain.
this is because most people only see the data within a blockchain in the format of a financial transaction:
[in: 1Fr0m4p3r50n value: 0.01btc]
[out: 1t04p3r50n value: 0.01btc]
[signed: 1Fr0m4p3r50n5sign4tur3]
now imagine
[Doctor: 1Fr0m4p3r50n patient: 1t04p3r50n symptom: insomnia result: yes]
[signed: 1Fr0m4p3r50n5sign4tur3]
[Doctor: 1Fr0m4p3r50n patient: 1t04p3r50n symptom: pregnant result: yes]
[signed: 1Fr0m4p3r50n5sign4tur3]
[Doctor: 1Fr0m4p3r50n patient: 1t04p3r50n symptom: HIV result: no]
[signed: 1Fr0m4p3r50n5sign4tur3]
this is because most people only see the data within a blockchain in the format of a financial transaction:
[in: 1Fr0m4p3r50n value: 0.01btc]
[out: 1t04p3r50n value: 0.01btc]
[signed: 1Fr0m4p3r50n5sign4tur3]
now imagine
[Doctor: 1Fr0m4p3r50n patient: 1t04p3r50n symptom: insomnia result: yes]
[signed: 1Fr0m4p3r50n5sign4tur3]
[Doctor: 1Fr0m4p3r50n patient: 1t04p3r50n symptom: pregnant result: yes]
[signed: 1Fr0m4p3r50n5sign4tur3]
[Doctor: 1Fr0m4p3r50n patient: 1t04p3r50n symptom: HIV result: no]
[signed: 1Fr0m4p3r50n5sign4tur3]
Yeah an imaging report would never fit on the blockchain. IPFS is a good solution for this though. We can just store simple referents to the data on chain and store the vast bulk of information in IPFS.
Re: [2017-06-19] ToI: Accenture, Microsoft team up on blockchain-based ID network
This would be really significant for healthcare. Right now in the US every single entity has their own identifiers for a patient and this leads to an inability to track a patient across the different points of care and contributes to significant info gaps that we see today. I know a few US insurers are also looking into this digital ID to help them identify their own patients and match them up to their policy better.
Re: Doctors warn Government plans for 'brutal' NHS cuts will cause 'uproar'
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Unfortunate to hear. Working in the US healthcare sector I often assume a rosy picture of the UK system but in reality it seems that all healthcare systems are dealing with very significant challenges that require fairly bold solutions. The US is still light years away from having the drug pricing controls you have in the UK.
Re: [2018-08-17] Xerox Patent Applications Reveal Plan for Blockchain Records System
Technology giant Xerox wants to patent a way to securely revise electronic documents using blockchain, public records show.
The company perhaps best known for its eponymous copying machines filed a pair of applications in February 2016, according to new records released by the US Patent and Trademark Office. The concept laid out in the applications envisions a network of nodes all of which can share data via a blockchain are creating and updating documentary records.
As for who might use the proposed system, Xerox suggests "regional hospital systems or multi-national corporations" might find it applicable to their needs.
One of the applications explain:
"In one embodiment, the auditing system uses an encryption process, such as public key cryptography, to sign all record changes in an electronic document (with the private half of a key pair) and to verify that records have not been altered (with the public half of the key pair). This is important in ensuring the security of record changes before they are fixed in the blockchain. The security of the disclosed system and method may improve as the system becomes larger."
Notably, it's that first use case healthcare that Xerox has honed in on in the relatively few statements the firm has made on blockchain to date.
In a blog post published late last month, Ritesh Gandotra, director of global document outsourcing for Xerox India pointed to the tech as a potential platform for storing and exchange electronic health records.
"The current need of the industry is a solution that is not only innovative but also decentralised a record management system that handles [electronic health records] using blockchain technology," she wrote.
Source > https://www.coindesk.com/xerox-patent-applications-reveal-plan-blockchain-records-system/
The company perhaps best known for its eponymous copying machines filed a pair of applications in February 2016, according to new records released by the US Patent and Trademark Office. The concept laid out in the applications envisions a network of nodes all of which can share data via a blockchain are creating and updating documentary records.
As for who might use the proposed system, Xerox suggests "regional hospital systems or multi-national corporations" might find it applicable to their needs.
One of the applications explain:
"In one embodiment, the auditing system uses an encryption process, such as public key cryptography, to sign all record changes in an electronic document (with the private half of a key pair) and to verify that records have not been altered (with the public half of the key pair). This is important in ensuring the security of record changes before they are fixed in the blockchain. The security of the disclosed system and method may improve as the system becomes larger."
Notably, it's that first use case healthcare that Xerox has honed in on in the relatively few statements the firm has made on blockchain to date.
In a blog post published late last month, Ritesh Gandotra, director of global document outsourcing for Xerox India pointed to the tech as a potential platform for storing and exchange electronic health records.
"The current need of the industry is a solution that is not only innovative but also decentralised a record management system that handles [electronic health records] using blockchain technology," she wrote.
Source > https://www.coindesk.com/xerox-patent-applications-reveal-plan-blockchain-records-system/
Interesting. I hope Xerox will actually develop something and not just become a patent troll. Hadn't realized they were even active in the blockchain space.
Definitely changing the world. Like many transformative technologies though it's biggest impact will likely be behind the scenes. People will reap the benefits without understanding its underlying architecture.
Blockchain in Healthcare is a positive approach especially when it comes to protecting the rights of the patient. This technology can be used by insurances for faster transaction times as well as processing of claims. I am currently working in one of the major Insurances in the US and in one of their discussions they are considering blockchain in the daily processing of their claims and other stuff. So blockchain is already the future of almost everything not only on the healthcare sector but could be beneficial in any sector of our life.
I've been really impressed with the responsiveness from insurers. Humana had a great whitepaper by Kyle Culver about using the blockchain to improve claims adjudication. While the operational efficiencies alone are pretty exciting what really interests me are the possibilities that are unlocked if you can get claims processed in near real-time. Coming from a revenue cycle management background that would be huge for doctors because then they could actually collect the full patient obligation or arrange clear payment plans BEFORE the patient even leaves the office. It also finally allows for some price transparency where patients would be able to inquire about how much a service will cost them before they receive it. With the increasing shift towards patients paying a larger proportion of their care, these changes really couldn't come soon enough.
I think it's positive.
Medical industry does have faced with the problem of trust, then block chain can well solve the problem of trust, I think I will invest more than a few token on medical, there may be a very good returns.
Medical industry does have faced with the problem of trust, then block chain can well solve the problem of trust, I think I will invest more than a few token on medical, there may be a very good returns.
Yeah trust is certainly lacking in the current system (and for good reason). The really cool thing is that once you have trust in place you can begin to automate away a lot of those cross party administrative tasks like claims adjudication, prior authorizations, and prescription refills that consume a huge amount of time and resources today. That'll obviously take time but with improved data integrity, interoperable systems, and trust the blockchain puts the necessary pieces in place.