Data Handling, Consolidation and Standardization Under Healthureum

All healthcare institutions around the world use EHR systems to record and share their data. However, interoperability is not guaranteed considering these systems are customized in accordance with a particular hospital’s requirements. This fragmented method of data storage is responsible for delayed services and hides dozens of fraudulent scams.

The differences in the types of EHR systems each hospital flaunts also make it hard to share medical data across healthcare networks. As such, patients seeking appointments with new doctors have no access to their medical health and can only notify doctors of previous conditions via word of mouth or a written document. While in some instances pre-existing conditions rarely affect your current health status, this information is vital in helping doctors come up with a proper treatment plan.

Stakeholders and philanthropist might also want to check in on the progress of their projects, but with the EHR system that information is slow to retrieve and can be easily manipulated. Not to mention, the system is not strong enough to keep off malicious hackers who have terrorized healthcare facilities in search of private medical information. There have been dozens of leaked medical reports over the past few decades, and they are only increasing as more innovations throng the technological sector.

With privacy and security as the leading flaws, not to mention the lack of a centralized system that can make data storage and distribution efficient, healthcare services are deteriorating at a fast rate. Even with the inclusion of new technological advancements such as artificial technology and robotic surgery, the same challenges will still be prevalent across all healthcare facilities in the world if the mode of patient registration is not changed to make data retrieval easier and quicker.

However, while governments and entrepreneurs are scrambling to get the lasts software to help register patients in their state and private hospitals respectively, Healthureum has tackled all these problems and provided a clearer path to the future of medicine. Still, the medical revolution starts with these two fundamental processes, registration and data compliance.

The Right Data Entries

The first thing a patient does after visiting a healthcare facility is fill in a registration form. As mentioned earlier, various hospitals use different EHR systems to store patient and hospital information. As such, the data collected during registration varies from one hospital to another. While there might be some similarities, they are not standardized enough to record all the information required by a healthcare facility before service.

However, the project will revamp the registration process by eradicating all the disparities between methods of registration and data storage using Blockchain technology. As such, all medical institutions around the world will have a standardized registration process and considering Blockchain technology stores information in chronological fashion; data retrieval will be quick.

As such, there will be no cases of incorrect data entry increasing interoperability between healthcare providers, patients, as well as research programs. Healthureum will achieve all this without compromising on privacy and immutability of a patient’s health records.

Added Data Security and Harmonization

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 or HIPAA as commonly termed is the law safeguarding medical data integrity (privacy and security) in the United States. Different countries have similar laws as well, and the variances are not as significant as you would expect. While this is good news considering project Healthureum’s mission of affordable healthcare across the world using a centralized system, these laws are still being broken, and medical information from various institutions is being leaked almost on a daily basis.

As if that was not enough, more healthcare facilities are currently under fire due to their inability to manage scores of data. Research programs in need of patient data have to go through lengthy and tiring processes to retrieve the data which may not even be accurately recorded. However, with Healthureum’s Blockchain technology, healthcare facilities across the globe will be able to uphold the integrity required by regulatory bodies in both the registration of new patients and the storage and distribution of data.

Seeing that this technology will not be limited to one healthcare institution, the risk of exposing medical data to breaches by hackers or unwanted persons is intensified. However, Blockchain technology is not only tamperproof but also requires a patient’s master index so as to reveal any data stored regarding a particular individual or medical institution. Blockchain technology not only connects healthcare facilities and patients around the world but also ensures that data is stored and transferred securely and in compliance with privacy regulations such as HIPAA.

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