We Can’t Even Do The Simple Things in Healthcare and Blockchain

The NHS Needs To Move Soon To Integrate True Trust … We Need to Start Simple

We need to change our ways, and integrate trust in our health care systems. At the core of this must be blockchain methods, and which integrate identity and where we start to define a core layer of trust.

I had an interesting chat with a health care data architecture last week. “Well, Bill, how is it going to be possible to put patient data onto the blockchain?”, “Well, just don’t do it!”, “Why, I thought that’s what you are promoting?”, “No. Don’t put any personal information onto the blockchain just use it for the proof of identity and hashing transactions. That is what is does best.”, “But what about putting health care on the blockchain?”, “Well, forget about it just, and just do the basics, and open your trust infrastructure up.”

Ask most people what they want for digital services, and repeat prescriptions is likely to be near the top of the list. So I outlined a basic system for this.

Overall it is simple, as Alice the GP just sends a medication note to Bob the Patient and which is signed with the private key of Alice. At the same time Alice puts a hash of the medication note onto a public blockchain and signs it with her public…