Healthureum leverages roadmap of healthcare interoperability

Healthcare ecosystem needs a nationwide interoperability roadmap which can define the required critical policies, system procedures, and technical components properly. The roadmap must make provisions for ubiquitous, decentralized and secure network infrastructure. Healthureum envisions and empowers such a network that is all-encompassing and not prone to security crashes. One of the imperative components of the nationwide interoperability roadmap is the need of verifiable identities and ability to authenticate all the healthcare participants without ambiguity. Identity security and management remain at the crux of healthcare concerns since electronic health records first came into action. Consistent representation of decentralized authorization to access electronic health information of the patients is another area of focus for nationwide interoperable healthcare roadmap.

Current healthcare technologies are inefficiently designed and not fit to be used in the context of interoperability of health data in a unified framework. Current healthcare standards are clouded by concerns of issues related to security breach, partial or complete lack of privacy, unauthorized access to vital data, and manipulation of data. These limitations deteriorate the viability and possibilities of entire health ecosystem.

Blockchain can take on many challenges of collective health data interoperability. Healthureum powered blockchain can do wonders to totally bypass the need of the middleman, such as a Health Information Exchange. With all transactions properly recorded and maintained in a ledger, the requirement of the middleman is totally abolished to facilitate transactions. Elimination of the role of the middleman can substantially leverage access to data on a grand scale, further boosting the utilization of population health data in novel and advanced ways. Current design and dynamics of Health Information Exchange provide easier access to sensitive healthcare data, and this can increase efficiencies by manifolds.

Blockchain will bypass the porous and breach-prone healthcare data design and create greater efficiencies leading to reduced administration costs for the payers. This will help to solve the mammoth challenge of Master Patient Index (MPI). The core nature of blockchain is sketched out in a way that it actually incorporates the essential elements of MPI. Healthureum does not look at the patients' identification but the health data that is resolutely hashed to the ledger. It's actually the data that is sought to facilitate better clinical outcomes for the patients and to herald a result-oriented research ecosystem. Another stout feature of Healthureum powered block chains is the ability to combine data from multiple sources. Blockchains are inherently built in a way that they can combine data regardless of the originating source, including mobile healthcare apps, wearable medical devices, home health devices, and electronic health records.

The present state of healthcare records is disfigured due to a dearth of common standards and frameworks that would facilitate the secure transfer of sensitive information among stakeholders and participants in the system. In the usual course of current set up, health care providers have to track and update a patient's clinical dataset whenever a medical service is provided to the patient. This dataset includes standard data, such as the patient's age and gender, as well as unique information with regard to the specific service rendered, such as the care plan, the procedure performed, side effects, medical events, and other notes. Traditionally, this sensitive health data is tracked in a database within a singular health organization or within a fixed and defined network of health care organizations and stakeholders. This type of health information flow that originates from the patient and passes through the health care organization each time a service is performed usually stops at the individual, organizational level. Healthureum reshapes this pathway to bring the blockchain dynamics in the system. The need of the hour is to incorporate blockchain in healthcare operations so that healthcare organizations direct a standardized set of health data present in each patient interact to a nationwide blockchain transaction layer. This transaction layer contains neither Protected Health Information (PHI) nor Personally Identifiable Information (PII).

Selective and non-personally identifiable demographics and information related to medical services and events could enable healthcare organizations and pioneer research institutions authorized and unobstructed access to an expansive, assimilative and data-rich information set. Healthcare information stored on the blockchain could be made available to a specific individual through the private key mechanisms of the blockchain. This enables the patients to share their sensitive health information with health care organizations easily and much more seamlessly. The feature of a transaction layer on the blockchain can help accomplish interoperability goals while creating an unbiased, trustless, collective, and collaborative ecosystem of health information sharing to herald in a world of new insights to upgrade and reform the nation's health care system and health of its citizens.