Do the Cura Network Entities Confuse You? They’re All Explained Here

“ Individual commitment to a group effort — that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.” — Vince Lombardi

At Cura Network, we share the above mantra. We believe that in order to redesign health care, the happy collaboration and working together of 4 distinct type of users would be needed. These users are called ENTITIES on Cura Network and they are the:

• Patients
• Specialists
• Providers
• Third-party App Developers

If they sound too technical or confusing to you, just read on, they’re all explained in plain and easy to understand English.

PATIENTS

At Cura Network the patient is the center of interest. A patient is an autonomous human entity (technical way of saying you and I). Patients have exclusive ownership of their health data distributed and shared by other permitted entities. Patients can authorize or deny access to part or all of their health records.

What the above means is that Cura Network would refer to participant that uses the network primarily to organize and access health records as patients.

Patients have exclusive ownership of their health data distributed and shared by other permitted entities.

SPECIALISTS

This entity is either a human or a bot. Specialists are the primary suppliers of a wide variety of health services. Specialists are responsible for the accuracy, integrity, and timeliness of the health data of their patients provided. A human specialist could be a medical doctor, therapist, psychologist, dietitian etc. A non-human specialist or a bot could be an Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) device such as a Continuous Glucose Monitoring (CGM) system, fitness tracker etc. or an intelligent software agent.

Specialists are responsible for the accuracy, integrity, and timeliness of the health data of their patients provided.

PROVIDERS

These are vetted health care and research institutions that sponsor specialists on the network. A specialist must be sponsored by one or more providers to be active on the network.

A specialist must be sponsored by one or more providers to be active on the network.

THIRD-PARTY APP DEVELOPERS

Application developers in the network integrate their health apps written in any programming language with health identities via a simple data exchange specification or using a wide range of client libraries.

So there you have them. The four entities explained. We hope you understand them. If you have any questions, please leave them in the comment, we’ll respond ASAP.

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