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Block chain should be used to provide a legit health history on a per person basis ... It's all about trust ... Similarly insurance and healthcare businesses mu
by AtomicOrbital 7y ago
Block chain should be used to provide a legit health history on a per person basis ... It's all about trust ... Similarly insurance and healthcare businesses must also be on a transparent block chain ... As is it's only benefitting lawyers
- ladberg 7y agoAnd make everyone's health history public? Why couldn't the government do something similar but with more privacy?
- zootam 7y ago>Similarly insurance and healthcare businesses must also be on a transparent block chain How is blockchain the answer to this at all?
- GauntletWizard 7y agoHe might just mean "Merkle tree with digital signatures", which most people intimately familiar with block chain won't distinguish from block chain, despite the former being in general use in the software industry and the latter in general use by Ponzi schemes.
- tomrod 7y agoI don't see an implementation of blockchain that would address this, especially considering blockchain is intended to be trustless.
- skue 7y agoFor all those downvoting the parent: https://www.psjhealth.org/news/2019/02/psjh-acquires-lumedic https://www.psjhealth.org/news/2019/02/psjh-acquires-lumedic I firmly believe blockchain is over hyped, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t have its potential use cases. Medical payers/providers are in fact giving it serious consideration.