blockchain

The blockchain is a digital, decentralized database for recording and storing transaction data records. We cover its application to make sharing of health records, clinical trial data or information on drug supply chains secure.

Blockchain could provide secure communications for robots

The use of blockchain technology as a communication tool for a team of robots could provide security and safeguard against deception.

'Origami' testing app tackles spread of malaria

A new approach to tackling the spread of malaria in sub-Saharan Africa, which combines affordable, easy-to-administer blood tests with machine learning and unbreakable encryption, has generated encouraging early results in Uganda.

How blockchain can help the homeless

Researchers say new technology solutions such as blockchain can be used to keep important health care information of homeless people secure and portable.

A-Medicare will launch new crypto coin

A-Medicare announced launch plans for a new crypto coin as a planned element of early strategic growth integral to platform development through the remainder of 2020 and 2021.

Tracking prescription drugs via blockchain

Using blockchain, the US pharmaceutical industry plans track legal changes of ownership of prescription drugs as they move through the supply chain.

#Internet of Medical Things

Blockchain may improve the medications of the future

Using blockchain, researchers have developed a prototype of an app that may potentially prescribe the optimal dose of medicine for the individual patient, as well as prevent counterfeit products.

Blockchain could esure integrity of clinical trial data

Prototype web portal shows technology’s potential to protect and streamline the clinical trials process.

Blockchain makes sharing of medical records secure

Engineers have successfully developed and validated the feasibility of blockchain-based technologies for secure, confidential sharing of patient medical records.

Blockchain – paradigm shift towards patient-centered healthcare

The use of blockchain will change paradigm towards patient-centered healthcare.

Transactions, trust and tokens – Blockchain for healthcare

“A central pillar of blockchain is trust, because data cannot be altered,” says Dr Eberhard Scheuer, Chairman of the Health Information Traceability Foundation.