Providing fertile ground for blockchain innovation
The crisis has permeated every facet of society, shining a spotlight on the glaring inefficiencies within the traditional global healthcare system and illustrating the inherent need for technology-driven initiatives that can alleviate pressure on healthcare professionals and ensure patient data collation is as streamlined and secure as possible. As someone who has long championed the potential of blockchain technology to be a transformative enabler of change across a wide spectrum of industries, I believe in the criticality of delivering new levels of efficiency, transparency and automation — pronounced benefits of distributed ledger technology — to the future of global healthcare, particularly from a data collation and patient care delivery standpoint.
If introduced on a mainstream level, this would bring a much-needed layer of fluidity to the healthcare space, negating the need for patients to painstakingly recall their medical history, partake in repeat testing if they find themselves in another medical jurisdiction, or if they suddenly find themselves consulting with a new practitioner. Further breakthrough deployments of DLT solutions have the potential to strengthen healthcare systems more broadly, improve the accessibility of healthcare, and empower patients and practitioners to embrace a new era of streamlined telehealth.