Over the last few years, many fields have been keen to experiment with blockchain solutions. Cryptocurrencies have found a home in every sector from entertainment, shopping to business and cybersecurity. The health sector has also been coming up with new ways to welcome the global takeover of crypto. As the latest development, the chief technology officer of Zelis has shared interesting insights about the future of blockchain in healthcare. Zelis is a healthcare and fintech company that specializes in optimizing payment-based solutions to the health industry.
Tech boss Kali Durgampudi said that the junction of blockchain healthcare is soon going to change the game in safeguarding sensitive information such as a patient’s details from invasions by digital criminals. Privacy-related issues and security-based problems are cropping up as the sector is working towards the digitalization of its old patient records. Blockchain tech can help a lot in decreasing most of these problems as the world is in the middle of increasing cyber assaults to acquire finance-sensitive information. He emphasized the importance of using a digitalized archive powered by blockchain tech that will make such attacks and data breaches impossible.
As the data will not be able to be changed or replicated in any way, the importance of using blockchain tech in healthcare-related online activities is more necessary now than ever. This will also assist the Information Technology units working with hospitals by giving them an additional layer of security in warding off cybercriminals’ ambushes. Durgampudi also mentioned that blockchain’s incorporation in the health sector would significantly impact the mode of payment by making it more transparent and optimized. Both the hospitals and patients will benefit in the long run from this. It guarantees openness from the first time patients register their data to deal with any disputes that might arise in the future.
Many players in the health industry are already using the boom of blockchain to simplify and radicalize the experience of patients. Global technological behemoth IBM has devised healthcare inventions based on blockchain that help in verifying patients’ data and also solutions for pharmaceutical-based management.