According to Dr. Lubna Al Shaali, the Director of the Public Health Policy Department, the new data storage blockchain platform will help secure an unchangeable, decentralized and encrypted database with high-security protection to verify data validity and reliability.
Per the Ministry’s plans for introducing artificial intelligence (AI) into health services, the platform will also contain AI functionalities.
80% of government entities in the UAE’s have started using blockchain. In the past several months, the Department of Economic Development in Dubai has announced its move to a blockchain-based unified business registry platform to improve the ease of doing business in Dubai and enable license issuers to manage trade licenses and corporate registries.
Being decentralized, secure, transparent, and efficient in managing data, the healthcare sector can benefit tremendously from blockchain technology.
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