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Proof Work aims to decentralize medical data

by using the blockchain

Posted 1 hour ago by Sarah Pérez on Tech Crunch

"Tel Aviv-based Proof Work is envisioning a future where patients own and control their own medical data in a decentralized system, where data is secured by the blockchain. The system, if successful, would be a big disruption to how health care data is handled today – where it’s often accessible only by the doctors and hospitals themselves, and where patients have to make special requests to have a copy of their own medical records. . . "

What will change?

In the future, the goal is to allow patients to walk into a doctor’s office with all their medical records already on their phone.

In addition, patients – not doctors – should get to decide what happens to those records, says Suter.

Today, doctors will have patients sign agreements to allow them to share their medical data. In some cases, that includes allowing healthcare companies to sell anonymized medical data to pharmaceutical companies. With Proof Work, patients could choose to contribute their data or sell it, and the transactions would be transparent.