2. Challenges in Digital Healthcare
Issues for Healthcare Organisations
● Privacy Control
● Siloed data
● Proliferation of unconnected apps
● Lack of interoperability
● Increasing costs of monolithic solutions
● Vendor lock-in
Issues for the Partient
● Privacy Control
● Difficulty in obtaining health data
● Fragmentation and duplication of information
● Not connected to wearables or IoT devices
● Difficult to obtain value from health data
“In essence, there will no longer be an EHR in the traditional sense,
an institution-centric record whose patient portal is a small tip of the
hat to patient-centeredness. Rather, there will be one digital
patient-centered health record that combines clinician-
generated notes and data with patient-generated information
and preferences. Its locus of control will be, unambiguously,
with the patient.”
Bob Wachter MD, Chair of National Advisory Group on Health IT, England
3. What is the blockchain?
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4. Hyperledger blockchain
Logic permissions
MedTokens
Telemedicine
consultations
Health data
marketplace
Wearables
integration
Insurance
integration
Determines who can
read/write to health records
Applications and services powered by health data
Semantically enabled, vendor-
independent health
computing platform
Used for economic
transactions
Contains transactions related
to health records
Health Data Platform
5. Challenges for Healthcare addressed
Safety And Security
● Double layer of encryption
● Data stored data in compliant nodes
● Full informed consent
● Immutable records
● IG and GDPR compliance from the start
…. one digital patient-centered health record that
combines clinician-generated notes and data with
patient-generated information and preferences. Its
locus of control ... unambiguously, with the patient.
Data Interoperability
● OpenEHR for data persistance
● FHIR standard for data messaging
● No new siloes created
● Longitudinal view of patients; health data
● Integration of wearables and IoT devices
● Open API for health data eco-system
● Borderless healthcare
7. Medicalchain - the Story So Far
Telemedicine Pilot
● Large GP practice: 27 doctors, 4 sites
● First iteration of the Medicalchain platform
● Unlock the GP data
● Followed by UK roll out
Progress to data
● $24,000,000 raised in ICO (blockchain
crowdfunding)
● 16 strong multidisciplinary team - tech,
health informatics, clinical, crypto
● Based in London, Leeds and Greater
Manchester
● First pilot commenced
8. Twitter: @medical_chain Telegram: t.me/Medicalchain
Dave Ebbitt
Health Informatics Manager
dave@medicalchain.com
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