When Distributed Ledgers and Trust Infrastructures Just Become As Natural As Ethernet and SQL Databases
I am the co-Chief Editor of the Blockchain in Healthcare Today journal [here], and was lucky to be part of an inspirational editorial/reviewer team discussion last week hosted by John Halamka [here] and Tory Cenaj [here]. Overall, I must admit, it was inspirational. Here were people who ‘just got on with, and built real systems that addressed fundamental problems in health care’. For many on the call, the usage of distributed ledgers was all just part of what they did. For them, these ledgers provided a core element, but it was their application areas that were their focus.
Doing good things for health care
I heard of one business that was using NFTs (Non-fungible Tokens) within clinical trials, and where it supported complete auditability and supported improved consent models. And, when you think about it, the use of NFTs within clinical trials is possibly a natural thing to implement, as it provides a verifiable and trusted source of identity for unique entities. A person, a drug batch, an experiment, and so on, can all be represented by NFTs, in the same way that we would have a bar code or a unique identifier.
And, when you think about it, where do we need trust the most? … in areas related to…
