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No one is advocating putting medical records on the blockchain. That's crazy. He's talking about using a technology like Tierion or Chainpoint to anchor a hash
by waynevaughan 10y ago
No one is advocating putting medical records on the blockchain. That's crazy.
He's talking about using a technology like Tierion or Chainpoint to anchor a hash of the data in the blockchain. This can be used to verify the integrity and approximate timestamp of the data.
http://tierion.com http://tierion.com
http://chainpoint.org http://chainpoint.org
- feral 10y ago> No one is advocating putting medical records on the blockchain. That's crazy. The post I responded to seemed to be. It implied the data would be "distributed upon 5,000+ worldwide nodes in an immutable data ledger", and said it would: "be there forever" "keep the data accurate and accessible" I think its legit to call this out. Blockchain is a great technology, but its being hyped as if its the world's only distributed database. > This can be used to verify the integrity and approximate timestamp of the data. That may indeed be beneficial, but isn't the panacea that is being touted.
- waynevaughan 10y ago"That may indeed be beneficial, but isn't the panacea that is being touted." We agree. That's the primary conclusion of the report.