Australian Health Dept experiments with blockchain

Agile Digital, Vault Systems and Australia’s Department of Health recently completed a proof of concept (PoC) blockchain application to track medical research. The medical data itself is not on a blockchain. Instead, access to the data and the data science experiments are logged on a public blockchain.

The aim

Privacy and security were essential requirements for the PoC. The Health Department wanted to avoid the Cambridge Analytica type of data breach. Hence researchers cannot download data. Instead, all medical data is stored and maintained in Australia by staff vetted by the Australian government. The project uses Vault System’s government certified protected cloud.

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