Blockchain 3.0 (Ten): Blockchain health promotion to overcome major diseases

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What is Blockchain Health?

Blockchain health refers to the use of blockchain technology in health-related applications to store and analyze data for health management and health prediction.

Blockchain as an electronic medical record for personal health storage

Personal health data can be stored and managed using blockchain. Compared with traditional health data management, blockchain health has several advantages:

1. Non-real-name, data is anonymously encoded into digital addresses to prevent privacy issues caused by data leakage

2. Data can only be accessed through a private key, which ensures privacy from being leaked from a technical perspective

3. Traditionally, each institution has its own independent health data system, and heterogeneous systems make it difficult to share and collaborate on data, which makes data analysis difficult. Blockchain health has a unified data format, making cross-institutional and cross-national sharing and collaboration possible, which is also the basis for collaboration on large-scale global projects.

Sharing blockchain health data

Currently, global health data is almost entirely stored in private databases that are difficult to access. Standardized blockchain personal health data allows data from different institutions to be stored and shared in a unified manner, and provides a security mechanism to facilitate data access for researchers around the world.

With the popularization of smart hardware, the data generated by personal health devices such as Fitbit, bong, and Xiaomi wristbands can be stored uniformly through blockchain in the future, which will usher in a super-large personal health database. These data are set with a privacy openness level for global researchers to analyze data, and through data mining and machine learning to analyze data correlation, so that scattered data such as personal medical history, living habits, and genome can be integrated into a health big data stream, which will greatly improve health management and preventive medicine.

Blockchain health notarization

Currently, when buying health insurance, the insurance company will ask the insured about their age and medical history and give them the corresponding insurance policy. This method is inefficient and perfunctory, which is disadvantageous to both parties. In the future, with the popularization of blockchain health, insurance companies will be able to efficiently obtain the insured's accurate health data and accurately assess business opportunities and risks; and the insured can also pay the cost-effective premium according to their own situation, and get a win-win result.

Global Health Database

Blockchain health makes it possible to establish a global ultra-large-scale database of various types in the future: genes, viruses, tumors, seeds, etc., and eventually form a unified database of human history. In this way, when a major disease breaks out globally, researchers from various countries can quickly and seamlessly collaborate across borders to effectively solve the problem.