Blockchain Adoption in Healthcare: Securing Patient Data and Medical Records

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If there is a particular sector that have experienced a remarkable transformation beyond what one can ever imagine of, I will say it is the healthcare industry. Thanks be to the digital world we are living now, it has helped to actually make sure that the healthcare sector improves greatly to what we are used to know it for and that is because of the innovation of better technology that has helped to improve the efficiency of operations that are always carried out.

Looking at all these Innovations, I will say the Blockchain technology have been able to offer a massive solution to help change the Patient care that we offer and also help to manage the medical records beyond what one can ever imagine of. The fact that the Blockchain technology which many of us are not new to is Decentralised in nature hagw really helped to make sure that there are issues that the healthcare sector has addressed and which the healthcare has been able to settle them.

Talking about the massive role that the Blockchain technology actually plays in the healthcare sector, they are actually so many beyond what one can ever imagine. The fact that Blockchain operates on this Decentralised nature and the fact that it have this Immutability feature which makes transactions records not to be altered, this major factor have allowed the healthcare to go far beyond what one can ever imagine of. This has helped to keep the medical records much more secured than before.

The fact that Blockchain technology can make sure that a patient record can be encrypted which will make it to be so secured. Then I can say the medical data is actually been used in a lot of institutions and not only that it is making it difficult for the healthcare providers to be able to access information beyond what one can ever imagine of actually. This is helping to provide a medical history and that is just what the Blockchain space is able to do. Offering access and accurate records beyond what one can ever imagine of actually.

When we actually talk about data security, I can say it is very important most especially in the healthcare because medical records are very sensitive, a slight change in those records can leads to loss of lives of the patients. Over the years, we have actually seen the centralised database controlling the medical records but the truth is they are always subjected to hacking and data manipulations. But with the introduction of the Blockchain, it actually goes a long way to settle all these issues and help to settle those challenges that the Centralized database always provides.

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The first mechanism is the aspect of Decentralisation. Decentralisation is really the key and in fact the fact that all data can be distributed without not been worried about the cyber attacks. The fact that the encryption nature of the Blockchain world can also go a long way to actually change things beyond we can ever imagine of. This makes it easy for the unauthorised individuals to be able to have full security of the information because not anyhow person can access that information.

The second aspect which I will like to talk about is the immutability factor. Immutability in the sense that as far as a particular data is recorded on a particular Blockchain, it actually goes a long way to make it altered or deleted. This particular feature is really important and needed most especially in the healthcare industry because it will go a long way to actually sustain the security of the patients records.

I will like to establish that there is a massive need for interoperability in the sense that it helps to strengthen the healthcare system most especially because it helps to deliver result. There are a whole lot of institutions that I have actually come to discover that isnjelomh to make incompatible systems as it is making it quite so challenging sometimes for those patient data to be hacked. One of the things I have actually discovered is that Blockchain helps to provide this interoperable data sharing feature which goes a long way to actually change a whole lot of things actually.

Talking about the challenges, even though the Blockchain have a lot to offer, I will say there are still a lot of challenges to still deal with at the early stage because it will go a long way to change a lot of things. The first is what I called scalability. Whether we like it or not, the Blockchain network is still suffering to actually handle a lot of data that is making it to actually change a lot of things in the healthcare. The second one is the regulatory compliance. Trust me, the Blockchain world is still suffering from the regulatory compliance

As I conclude, I will like to establish that the Blockchain technology have so much of potential to change the world even beyond the healthcare sector. We have started but I strongly believe it will just continue to keep getting better and better as time goes on I must confess. The future is definitely bright.