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How to use blockchain for secure sharing of health data (IEEE)

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Ledger Insights spoke with Daniel Hwang an IEEE workstream leader on Health Data Representation on Blockchain and Quality Scoring. An essential aspect of representing data is how to preserve the health data privacy. The project started in April so it’s still very early days and they’re just at the discussion stage. The aim is to submit something formal to IEEE at the end of the year or Q1 2019. In exploring how to represent health data, Hwang commented about the privacy issues: “Having the actual data on the chain is unreasonable. And so it’s about the methods of how data is going to be accessed from those siloed areas.”

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