What's true about people in India dying due to lack of access to medical records must be true of any other part of the world as well if such access is a problem. Its great to see blockchain being used to solve this problem. The path to getting to the medical records business took some wide detours:
Transcrypts began as a tool to combat resume fraud marketed to human resources professionals, before expanding into income verification for landlords. Now, the firm said that it views itself as a full service documentation service. The DWB partnership is its first foray into medical records. Previously Transcrypt had found that HIPAA and other compliance laws essentially barred blockchain as an acceptable method of storage for medical records within the United States.
This proves the concept that every piece of data about a person could be part of a ledger and if they get to control who has access to what parts of their information and what price point, it would make the use of data fair to the consumer. Right now we are nowhere close to being in the driver's seat. We are lucky if we even have a seat in the bus in the form of a privacy and consent policy that tries to protect us.
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