“The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and IBM are collaborating on a blockchain-based system that could track public health issues like the ongoing opioid crisis.”
“The new system, which IBM and the CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics have tested using simulated data, could make it easier for the CDC to survey medical providers about data like the reasons patients visit and the symptoms they display…”
“Researchers, the CDC, and medical providers could all connect to the blockchain to update and access information about who’s been granted permission to access which data. The medical records themselves, obtained through hospital electronic record systems, would be stored encrypted in IBM’s cloud systems, and…” Read the full article here.
Source: How IBM and the CDC are testing blockchain to track health issues like the opioid crisis – By Steven Melendez, September 4, 2018. Fast Company.
