Designing a Blockchain-Based Universal Healthcare Identity System With Hyperledger and GCP
Consider this: A woman in Phoenix is admitted to the emergency department unconscious. Her PCP is in Boston, her cardiologist is in Chicago, and her medication record is spread out over three different pharmacies, two hospital systems, and a telehealth portal she used twice during the pandemic. The ED doctor treats them based on fragments, and fragments are lethal.
This is the current state of the healthcare system in America. The US spends more on healthcare on a per capita basis than any other developed nation, and yet it lacks a nationwide patient identity system. Each provider has its own unique patient identifier, its own EHR, and its own database. What does this mean? Data redundancy, fragmented patient profiles, hazardous care coordination failures, and a health care industry shelling billions in unnecessary administrative costs every year.
Solution? Digital patient identity through blockchain, powered by the data architecture services of Google...
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