Patient Governed Healthcare Access

Getting access to your health care records has never been easy. And understanding those records can be even harder. People are constantly moving, changing doctors, seeing new specialists, and their records are stored across multiple electronic medical records (EMRs).

It’s 2018. Trying to get access to and make sense of your health records should be as easy as tapping a button on your phone… That’s exactly what can be accomplished with MedChain.

Easy to Use

Imagine walking into any doctor’s office, in any city, in any state, and being able to access your records. You check in, go into a private room, and the doctor meets you personally. You authenticate your Doctor’s request, granting access to your records. Voila! The process couldn’t be more streamlined; patients won’t have to worry about medical technical terms, HIPAA or GDPR, messing up their data, or ever losing it.

Agency

A patient has complete decision-making power over who gets to see that data. And they can revoke those privileges at any time. Log into your phone or web app and strike the hospital, physician, or entity from having access. This works both ways. Let’s say a patient has an emergency and goes to the ER. They can pull out their phone and grant the hospital access within seconds. The power is in the patient’s hands with MedChain.

This also means that when you goes to see your orthopedic doctor, you don’t have to share any information you don’t want or need to. Your dermatologist probably doesn’t need to know that you broke your arm in the 3rd grade, and you might not want your insurance company to have your entire genome. These things may seem obvious, but with our current system, just getting access to any medical records is a challenge, and then when a doctor or clinic does get them, they are often delayed or incomplete.

Finally, in terms of agency, you will now have access to your own medical records at anytime. You can pull your phone out on the subway to work, and check your records at any given moment. You could get updates when doctors, health insurances companies, or hospitals request to access your information and when information is added or removed.

Sound Too Good to be True?

The MedChain distributed storage network provides a platform to make this scenario a reality. Developers, institutions, researchers, will all be able to leverage our framework to facilitate a world-wide healthcare interoperability solution.