At a November 11 press convention, blockchain- primarily based doc safety firm Transcrypts announced a partnership with Docs With out Borders, or DWB, that started on October 14th. Working collectively, they’ve already uploaded 6500 immunization information to the blockchain, with a objective of 76000 by 2022.
Many of the recorded immunizations are COVID 19 vaccines, however the firm said that the finally the objective is to retailer all affected person medical information on the blockchain, the place they are going to be accessible from a affected person’s cellphone. The nascent California primarily based startup was based final 12 months by Zain Zaidi — then nonetheless {an electrical} engineering pupil at San Jose State College. The corporate now counts Paychex, ADP, Zoom, Spirit Airways and Oracle as its shoppers.
Transcrypts started as a device to fight resume fraud marketed to human sources professionals, earlier than increasing into revenue verification for landlords. Now, the agency stated that it views itself as a full service documentation service. The DWB partnership is its first foray into medical information. Beforehand Transcrypt had discovered that HIPAA and different compliance legal guidelines basically barred blockchain as an appropriate methodology of storage for medical information inside america.
Talking on the accessibility of affected person medical information in creating nations, Zaidi stated that blockchain might present vital assist in stopping many pointless deaths:
“In India over 700,000 folks die yearly from the dearth of entry to a affected person’s medical information. A majority of those deaths might have been prevented if physicians had entry to a affected person’s complete well being care information. With this partnership, Docs With out Borders and TransCrypts hopes to construct a future the place this lack of life will be mitigated.”
This isn’t the primary time COVID vaccination information have been saved on the blockchain. Cointelegraph reported in January about veChain’s launch of a program to take action at a big hospital in Cyprus.
