Empowering Patients with Blockchain

Unlike other industries where consumers have the adequate knowledge to make informed decisions, patients, as consumers of the healthcare system, suffer from a lack of knowledge and are completely subdued to care givers to make decisions on their most important asset, their health. Why should healthcare be different than other industries? Why this imbalance of knowledge between the patients and the healthcare system? Patients should have full access to their medical information.

Embleema is a start-up based in New York who ambitions to break this imbalance of knowledge in healthcare by using the "equalizing" power of Blockchain. Blockchain is well-known to be the underlying technology for crypto-currencies like Bitcoin or Ether. Blockchain's decentralized architecture and protocols allow people to transact in a trusted manner without the need of a central entity or third-party intermediaries. When applied to medical records, Blockchain returns ownership of their health information to patients, and empowers them to have a dialogue in equal terms with their care-givers. 

Embleema successfully developed a prototype for PatientTruth™. PatientTruth™ connects into Blockchain essential medical information across the healthcare system and provides the patient his comprehensive medical history.

Benefits are huge: patients are fully informed on their condition, they can understand all the treatment options and can seek second or third opinions, they don’t need to fill out the same forms before each admission asking for their allergies, medications or chronic conditions, they have peace of mind their data is secure, and they control the sharing of it.

Check it out at www.embleema.com