MedicoHealth — Where your health will be better treated!

The global healthcare system is facing a lot of challenges nowadays. Long lines, patient’s data unavailability, the problem of safe data storage, non-transparent payment system, demanding access to specialists or physicians and much more. But MedicoHealth project knows the answers to those questions.
1. Long lines and waiting:
According to Merritt Hawkins, it took an average of 24 days for a patient to make an initial appointment with a physician in the 15 large urban areas in the USA.
Similarly, in the U.K. GP appointment waiting, times are expected to approach three weeks. Based on NHS (UK) data, the number of patients (admitted in a hospital) have risen to their highest level in the last 7 years. Almost 40,000 admitted patients did not start consultant-led treatment within 18 weeks of referral.
In Canada, specialist physicians surveyed report a median waiting time of 21.2 weeks between referral from a general practitioner and receipt of treatment — longer than the wait of 20.0 weeks reported in 2016. This represented a 128% increase from 1993 when it was just 9.3 weeks.
As a response, people are increasingly using search engines to gather information that should have been provided by the physician. Needless to say, this type of behavior involves risks and can add to delays to treatments of severe conditions. The research conducted for the UK Digital Health Report that is based on 61 million Google searches and a survey of 1013 adults found out that one out of five people decides to diagnose themselves online with search engines when feeling unwell or experiencing any kind of symptoms. 11 percent said that this was because they were unable to get a doctor’s appointment, while the other 10.8 percent said Google was the best option because their GP wasn’t available quickly enough.
MedicoHealth is introducing a solution. We are building a global database of anonymous medical records, that is based on the blockchain. With our platform, you will become an active partner in your own healthcare. You will get a chance to prompt, affordable and reliable consultation from physician or specialist anywhere in the world.
2. Accessibility — the fragmented healthcare system:
Healthcare system is fragmented. Medical technology is developing rapidly, bringing new treatment opportunities and further adding to overall system complexity. The access to physicians around the world is complicated. Doctors are experiencing problems with the entrance to the whole medical database of a patient.
Medicohealth will make a difference with presenting a blockchain-based platform designed to improve a fragmented healthcare system. It will enable prompt, affordable, and reliable consultation about a patient’s condition from a physician or a specialist of their choosing.
The patient-physician system will allow:
- anonymous questions to physicians (fast physician comments)
- telemedicine integration in-line with applicable local legislation
- booking physician appointments
- anonymous data storage and access approval
- a secure and anonymous payment module
- physician identity/license validity check
The physician-physician system will allow:
- physician-physician on-line consultation
- anonymous data storage and access approval
- a secure and anonymous payment module
- physician identity/license validity check

3. Safe data storage:
Centralized storing of data provides for an efficient way of keeping and distributing data. With sensitive data, like health records or information, centralized solutions present a particular risk. With the proposed encryption solution, a centralized database could be used in a relatively secure way — due to data encryption and access control. But repeating security breaches and misuse of personal data, held in centralized databases, calls for a different solution. Using a decentralized version of storage, especially with shared or fragmented data distribution, adds another security layer to the system, allowing for full regulatory compliance.
Medicohealth will implement strong privacy and security arrangements (data encryption and authentication mechanisms) and transparent governance structures for raw data processing, which might include EHRs. With MedicoHealth platform, your data will be anonymously stored and accessed only by physicians, you will grant the access to. Not only that — your data will be accessible for a limited time, and you will decide for how long. This means that your personal data is safe with us.
4. Tokenized payment:
Data access and communication is already fully anonymized, but direct payments could compromise this. That is why the payments in MedicoHealth platform are fully tokenized and anonymous and will be performed on the blockchain. Token runs the system and compensates the service provider, platform, underlying protocol, and blockchain layer use. The smart contract will define the relationship between a patient and a physician. Payments will be automatically processed on the blockchain. This includes payment terms and a possibility to challenge the service quality and the payment itself.
5. EHR integration:
From the global perspective, EHR interoperability and connectivity present a significant challenge. Processing and analysis of clinical data are also complicated by the existence of different data standards. A limited number of substantial healthcare IT projects managed to achieve interoperability. In healthcare informatics, there are numerous SDOs (standards developing organizations), and when designing a working solution, this means building upon many existing rules. Clinical information in EHR is inherently complex, but complexity and ambiguity in specifications create errors, requires multi-party consensus, and demands change management.
To enable EHR integration, we are focused on OpenEHR implementation. OpenEHR is an open source standard for data management, access, exchange, and storage, allowing any organization or provider shared access to standardized data through a compatible application. Its specifications are defined and maintained by the openEHR Foundation. Transparency, interoperability, and centralization have been significant barriers to EHR adoption, and Medicohealth platform will be working on applying platform level interoperability that the industry needs.

6. Physician identification and License validity checks:
In the global healthcare system, you are not able to see and check healthcare providers’ skills and experience. With MedicoHealth database you will be able to find physician credentials, together with license validity information.
Support our idea and join the revolution in the healthcare system. With supporting and growing community, it is just a matter of time when we change the global understanding of medical treatment that we know today.

