Thoughts on healthcare information on the blockchain? Transmission of health care information across EMRs continues to be archaic and limits the ability to provide the highest quality of care

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What was your motivation behind cancerDB? Interesting though - with what seems like an exponential increase in immunotherapies, oncologists are certainly going to become overwhelmed with the options available

I think if by blockchain you mean git, absolutely.

That's what I've done at UH Cancer Center.

Also working on CancerDB.com, also on Git.

I do not think you need it on a public distributed open ledger though—I think git is enough.

Maybe with advances in decentralized private storage like Nillion this becomes feasible

imo the problem is not the tech stack. it is the lack of willingness to open such data which then reflects in form of poor infra, tech and related regs. idk if I want my personal health info out in the open like a blockchain either — sounds scary b/c gateway to genetic profiling

I think it’s inevitable, but still a few years away. It took solid decade after the HITECH Act for mass EHR adoption and the era of digital health.

Cool idea

Requires a lot of front-end engineering on token gates, permissions, security, hipaa compliance etc but the pain point is very real