“The agency relies heavily on surveys of medical professionals to assess the health of the country, but response rates have fallen in recent years, said Askari Rizvi, chief of the technical services branch at CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics. Today many government researchers see digital health records as a means make up the lost data, though tapping those resources comes with lots of regulations, he said.”
“For the last year, Rizvi and his team worked with IBM to build a blockchain-based system that lets the agency closely control access to sensitive information and keep tabs on how datasets move through the organization. Though still in its infancy, the technology could…”
“In the next stage of the project, he said his team is looking to partner with private providers and work out a framework for sharing data between the organizations. He added a number of his…” Read the full article here.
Source: CDC is Testing Blockchain to Monitor the Country’s Health in Real Time – By Jack Corrigan, November 6, 2018. Nextgov.
