Blockchain for Strengthening the Privacy of Healthcare Data

Blockchain And Healthcare Data Privacy

Patient data is retained in a multitude of provider silos as they move from one provider to another (Azaria et al., 2016) whereas it may be more beneficial to the patient if there was a transparent view of all events whatever provider was used. Data ownership, transparency and auditability looks to be common privacy issues as per Zyskind et al. (2015) in their work to position blockchain as a better method to protect and secure personal data.