At a November 11 press convention, blockchain- based mostly doc safety firm Transcrypts introduced a partnership with Docs With out Borders, or DWB, that started on October 14th. Working collectively, they’ve already uploaded 6500 immunization data to the blockchain, with a objective of 76000 by 2022.
A lot of the recorded immunizations are COVID 19 vaccines, however the firm said that the ultimately the objective is to retailer all affected person medical data on the blockchain, the place they are going to be accessible from a affected person’s telephone. The nascent California based mostly startup was based final yr 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 instrument to fight resume fraud marketed to human sources professionals, earlier than increasing into revenue verification for landlords. Now, the agency mentioned that it views itself as a full service documentation service. The DWB partnership is its first foray into medical data. Beforehand Transcrypt had discovered that HIPAA and different compliance legal guidelines primarily barred blockchain as a suitable methodology of storage for medical data inside the US.
Talking on the accessibility of affected person medical data in creating nations, Zaidi mentioned that blockchain might present important assist in stopping many pointless deaths:
“In India over 700,000 individuals die yearly from the shortage of entry to a affected person’s medical data. A majority of those deaths might have been prevented if physicians had entry to a affected person’s complete well being care data. With this partnership, Docs With out Borders and TransCrypts hopes to construct a future the place this lack of life might be mitigated.”
This isn’t the primary time COVID vaccination data 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.
