Blockchain can be applied in several use cases such as data management in electronic medical records, healthcare data security, and management of genomics at the point of care. To know more details and information about use cases, you can visit the below websites:
https://dhealth.network/use-cases/
https://dhealth.network/2021/01/11/health-certificates-on-blockchain/
https://dhealth.network/2021/01/07/hemophilia/
https://dhealth.network/2020/12/10/rabies-vaccine-tracking-with-blockchain-in-mali-and-ivory-coast/
https://dhealth.network/2020/12/01/management-of-respiratory-diseases-with-the-centiva-life-app/
2. 1.Health Certificates on
blockchain
While many countries were facing lockdowns
and/or imposing restrictions due to Covid-19,
some individuals started to think if a negative
PCR test or Antibody test could free them
from these restrictions.
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4. In that context, a digital
health pass showing a
person’s health status
seems to be a solution
gaining acceptance over
paper-based certificates.
5. The solution in currently being used by
Roche Ukraine to protect their workforce
dHeath has developed an open health certificate
registry where the digital twin of a test or vaccination
on the blockchain can be used
even to verify it independently.
6. 2. Improve treatment of
hemophilia patients with CENTIVA
LIFE app.
Poor data quality and a lack of treatment monitoring in
everyday life make it difficult to allocate the appropriate
treatment and medication to hemophilia patients.
7. dHealth, together with a Patient Advocacy Group
and a Swiss-based pharma company
implemented the blockchain-based app
CENTIVA LIFE to incentivize patients or the family
of child patients to provide/update real-world
data.
8. Blockchain technology is
being used to preserve
the privacy of the
patients, allow for a
GDPR conform data
handling and the transfer
of Digital Health Points
(DHP) for providing data.
Patients and their
families use the DHP to
redeem benefits.
9. Finally, after one year of preparation which was
hampered by the pandemic the first patients are
being onboarded this January 2021. It is the
expectation of all parties involved that data in the
existing patient registry will improve, therefore,
therapy outcomes for hemophilia patients will too.
12. dHealth is part of the consortium under the lead of
the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute
conducting the Blockrabies study. Prof. Jacob
Zinsstag (Swiss TPH) initiated the study
“BLOCKRABIES – Blockchain high-coverage rabies
post-exposure prophylaxis to achieve zero human
rabies deaths in Africa” which is funded by THE
EUROPEAN & DEVELOPING COUNTRIES CLINICAL
TRIALS PARTNERSHIP.
13. Parties involved are the Institut Pasteur, Université
des Sciences, des Techniques et des Technologies
de Bamako (USTTB), Laboratoire Central Vétérinaire
(LCV) – Bamako, Institut National d’Hygiène
Publique – Côte d’Ivoire, and the Ministère des
Ressources Animales et Halieutiques – Cote d’Ivoire.
16. The Vietnam National
Lung Hospital (NLH) in
Hanoi started to use
dHealth’s Centiva Life
app for the
management of
patients suffering from
tuberculosis.
17. Patients receive Digital Health Points when filling
out questionnaires which are presented inside the
app via the REDCap data collection tool
This project aims to improve tuberculosis
treatment adherence in the era of digital
financing, as well as strengthen the knowledge
base for patient treatment and care.
18. The goal is to include 5’000 TB patients at the
NLH annually. In parallel, data collection is
extended to patients suffering from different
respiratory diseases.